Crime Control Quotes

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment.

What is the point of the police if wrongdoers aren't afraid of them?

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

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

No one wants dangerous criminals in our communities.

Discovering how to spend leisure time well, especially during a time of austerity, could be as important in the effort to reduce crime as having extra police on the streets, and increasing the population of concert halls may actually help decrease the population of prisons.

The criminal law is no use to decent people.

We must renew our efforts to keep our communities safe, from the dangers of terrorists from foreign lands and from common criminals here at home. Let no criminal believe that tough fiscal times will yield an open cell door and a ticket to freedom.

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.

I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country.

To control violence [and other crime] requires a police system of professional investigations and good equipment. We don’t have it.

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.

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.

People should think of the war on terror as being like the war on crime--- a struggle in which success is measured not by final victory but by declines in incidence and seriousness of attacks.

Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

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

My 26 years experience as a police officer and official, including command of two police districts, tells me that unfortunately the only short-term response that can counter the on-street violence and offer neighborhoods relief from crime and drugs is aggressive law enforcement.... Cities and states have made police the institution of first response rather than of last resort in addressing this crisis.

We have to bring back law and order in this country and I think the police are phenomenal people.

We are going to take care of our law enforcement because in some ways that's going hand in hand now more and more when you see what's going on.