Crime Prevention Programs Quotes

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

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

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

To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.

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.

“I’m going to stop crime in the streets.” A president is pressured to make that promise even though a President can’t do anything about street crime.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

When I started to get involved in the crime issue, people said, "it's a local issue." I said, "No, there are lots of ways the federal government can help." And the best way the federal government can help, and did in the Crime Bill, is to find programs that work around the country and help them spread.

Regular, everyday working people in my state recognize that communities are going to have crime. They know that. The question is what do communities do about it?

Certain crimes cannot be prevented unless there is a daily collective work done diligently.