Norbert Wiener Quotes

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Crime is not going to be stopped by police departments. You have to have police departments but alone they cannot stop crime.

Since 1992 we have made dramatic progress in reducing violent crime.

People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.

We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.

It is high time for society to stop worrying about the criminal, and to let the criminal start worrying about society. And by "society" I mean you.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.

People have started to see that 'smart on crime' rather than 'tough on crime' makes sense.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.

I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them…

As long as I am mayor there will be law and order in Chicago.

The essence to reducing violent crime in our society is to take these people [criminals] off the street.

The real answer to the problem of crime committed by persons on bail, and indeed the solution to the general problem of crime, lies not in preventive detention of individuals presumed innocent, but in the speedy trial of the accused and the swift and sure punishment of the guilty.

It is unfair to the public to pretend that law enforcement efforts more than a marginal solution to the problem of crime.

But passing by all other considerations, and contemplating merely the political institutions of the United States, I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them.

Arresting people is not going to lower the crime rate

Victims of crime and the wider community deserve a grown-up debate on our criminal justice system and how we can make it work - for those within it and for those it protects.

The claim that too many criminals are being jailed, that there is over-incarceration, ignores an unfortunate fact: For the vast majority of crimes, a perpetrator is never identified or arrested, let alone prosecuted, convicted and jailed.

I think one of the keys to any crime-prevention program that's got to be developed is to focus on punishment - to let people know that there is a sanction and a punishment for hurting others.

Dealing with crime using archaic methods has become impossible. So, it's imperative that we change the ways to counter them.