Will Rogers Quotes

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

Until we in the community have made up our minds that what we really want is expiation, or removal, or reform, or or the discouragement of potential criminals, we shall get none of these, but only a confusion in which crime breeds more crime.

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.

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

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

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

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.

Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.

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.

'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

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

To control violence [and other crime] requires a police system of professional investigations and good equipment. We don’t have it.

My 26 years experience as a police officer and official, including command of two police districts, tells me that unfortunately the only short-term response that can counter the on-street violence and offer neighborhoods relief from crime and drugs is aggressive law enforcement.... Cities and states have made police the institution of first response rather than of last resort in addressing this crisis.

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

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.

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

Arresting people is not going to lower the crime rate

Crime prevention has to become a first priority.

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.

Giving low-level offenders a second chance, no matter the color of their skin or the economic status they hold, can create opportunity for all of us.

Given the devastation that crime can visit on families and communities, I will err on being a little too tough on crime than being too soft on crime.

It would be very dangerous and unwise to proceed with the Senate Judiciary bill, which would lead to the release of thousands of violent felons.