Chesa Boudin Quotes

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

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

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.

One of the problems in America is that everybody focuses on their own narrow little bit of the problem without connecting punishment and prevention together, without connecting the schools and the police together, without connecting the pediatricians and the social workers together.

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

Everybody does good things, but I'm talking about making major changes in the educational system that would impact an entire race. I'm talking about stopping these young gang members from killing one another. I'm talking about keeping prisons from overflowing.

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

There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.

We spend an awful lot of money on the criminal justice system that could better be spent at the other end of the spectrum.

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

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

My top priority as Attorney General is to continue the fight against violent crime, and step it up wherever needed.

A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.

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

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

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.

Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.

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

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

If crime went down 100 percent it would still be 50 percent higher than it should be.

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.