Donald Trump Quotes

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.

I have a message for all of you. The crime and violence that today afflicts America will soon - and I mean very soon - come to an end.

The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from violent crime in America? Inner city communities. Who has a personal and professional interest in lowering that violence? Cops.

Let's talk about the real issues of crime which people are worried about. What people are worried about is the rise in violent crime. We believe that more community policemen and women are part of the answer to this.

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades.

Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.

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

When crime was spiking in our communities, Dad wrote the crime bill that put 100,000 cops on the streets and led to an eight-year drop in crime across the country.

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

We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated.

We need law and order in the inner cities, because the people that are most affected by what's happening are African-American and Hispanic people. And it's very unfair to them what our politicians are allowing to happen.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

There is no tougher job in America than being a cop on the beat in a major city in this country, big and brawling.

In Chicago 3,000 people have been shot since January 1st. We're not going to let that happen. Our inner cities are almost at an all-time low, run by the Democrats for sometimes more than a hundred years, chain unbroken.

In America, we have cities that are far more dangerous than Afghanistan.

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

I probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in the history of this city. And I did it by having to use police officers in black areas where there was an astounding amount of crime. If that crime was in white areas, police officers would be in white areas.

Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

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.

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.

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.