William Barr Quotes

We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.

The increasing crimes in Chennai have become a cause for concern. Chain snatching has become a routine affair.

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

Outside of the killings, we have one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

The U.S. Attorneys who comprise the Attorney General's Advisory Committee play a critical role in carrying out the Department of Justice's important work, including its efforts to reduce violent crime, combat the opioid crisis, protect the most vulnerable, and enforce the rule of law.

We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

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.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.

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.

Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.

Targets don't fight crime.

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.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

If you want to cut down crime in America, give people some jobs.

The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidate's proposals, but about perceived character and values.

Respect for law is fading from the sensibilities of our people. Twenty times as many people in proportion to the population are lawlessly killed in the United States as in Great Britain. There are fifty times as many robberies. Life and property are relatively more unsafe than in any civilized country in the world.

I gathered, in the investigation I made as Chairman of the Committee of the American Law Institute, statistics from a majority of the States and I have carefully examined those gathered by other committees and commissions, and it is my judgment that of those committing major crimes … not one out of every ten is apprehended and adequately punished … that our system of apprehending and prosecuting those who commit major crimes is only from 10 per cent to 15 per cent efficient; that as to those apprehended and indicted for major offenses, it is only from 25 per cent to 30 per cent efficient … and that as to those actually tried for major offenses, it is not over 50 per cent efficient.

Crimes happen, but some are preventable.

Simply put, violent criminals break the law - any law - every day with impunity.

While crime is indeed up in some cities in the last month or so since the stay-at-home orders lifted, crime is nonetheless down overall for 2020. Indeed, violent crime has trended downward now for decades.

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.

hooting for 'Savdhaan India' in Mathura made me realise that no matter what place you come from be it a holy city, crime still prevails.

Too often, we see violent criminals return to the streets they have previously terrorized, only to commit more violent crimes.