Heather Cox Richardson Quotes

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

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.

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

Since 1992 we have made dramatic progress in reducing violent 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.

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

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

Crime is contagious.

Incarceration begets more incarceration, and incarceration also begets more crime, which in turn invites more aggressive enforcement, which then re-supplies incarceration …

No penal or political system which multiplies the population of the prisons at the rate of 10 per cent every year will solve a problem which is growing to be more and more of a danger to the social and moral life of the nation.

[We have to make] a distinction between dangerous violent criminals and people who are engaged in non-violent criminal activities….Your taking somebody out of the economy, breaking up their families, and putting them in a place with hardened criminals. I think that it is pretty hard to argue that has been a positive long-term result.

The key for members of the public is that they want criminals to be punished. They want them taken off the streets. They also want criminals who come out of prison to go straight.

Our laws are too lax, our justice system too weak - particularly when it comes to violent, dangerous offenders.

Every day, lax sentencing costs lives.

Unfortunately, if the man who leaves the prison gates is just as likely or - as is sometimes grievously the case - more likely to offend as he was when he entered them, then we fail not only the individual but public safety as well.

When I first served as Attorney General back in the early 90s, crime was at its highest in American history, with its peak in 1992.

Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.

States without the death penalty have had consistently lower murder rates. And national murder rates have declined steadily since 1992, despite fewer executions.

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.

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

I think we will be safer when we can concentrate law enforcement and criminal justice resources and energies on those individuals who truly need, for the safety of society... to be incarcerated.

If we're going to talk about mayors, that under the current mayor [of New York in 2016], crime has continued to drop, including murders.

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.