Tim Bishop Quotes

With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.

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

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.

Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.

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

We must stand our ground to ensure that our laws reduce violence and take a hard look at laws that contribute to more violence than they prevent.

There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to worry about loners and alienated people. We have to do better on mental health.

Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.

It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.

We must get rid of all the guns.

I want to again highlight the desperate need for us to pull together - the world over - to tackle knife crime and teach everyone how sacred a life is.

Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

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.

For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp in which the most troubled among us can find ways to appropriate one of the easily available weapons in all our communities.

Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.

We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.

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

Easy access to guns is one of the biggest factors in violent crime.

I founded Homeboy Industries in 1988 after I buried my first young person killed in our streets because of gang violence.

The task of dealing comprehensively with gangs belongs to the city, not to law enforcement.

You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it.

Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.

Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.

I do believe in lessons learned. I have learned that you work with gang members and not with gangs; otherwise, you enforce the cohesion of gangs and supply them oxygen.