There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.
You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.
The problem is not repeating rifles. It is repeating offenders.
We are never going to lick this problem of the drug traffic until we get the addicts off the streets of this country. They have got to be taken off the streets
The real answer to the problem of crime committed by persons on bail, and indeed the solution to the general problem of crime, lies not in preventive detention of individuals presumed innocent, but in the speedy trial of the accused and the swift and sure punishment of the guilty.
Crime is not going to be stopped by police departments. You have to have police departments but alone they cannot stop crime.
Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms.
We have lost the War on Drugs. We cannot arrest our way out of it….It’s a public health problem, not a crime problem.
The criminal justice system is not working and people want something that works.
If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.
As big a problem as gun violence is for Chicago, it is not beyond our ability to solve. Ending this string of tragedies is our top priority as a city. We are infusing our police department with the manpower, technology and training to meet this challenge head on.
Trying to solve the crime problem by building more prison cells is like trying to solve the problem of AIDS by building more hospitals.
You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.
Changes in court decisions [on defendants' rights] ... have about the same effect on the crime rate as an aspirin would have on a tumor of the brain.
It is unfair to the public to pretend that law enforcement efforts more than a marginal solution to the problem of crime.
For all our policing, we understand that law enforcement is not the solution to the problem of drugs in our society.
Only an approach combining tough law enforcement with physical, moral and educational revitalization of high-crime areas offers the prospect of a safer America.
This crime wave ends when Donald Trump becomes president. Believe me.
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
Until we in the community have made up our minds that what we really want is expiation, or removal, or reform, or or the discouragement of potential criminals, we shall get none of these, but only a confusion in which crime breeds more crime.
The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed society would be a crime-free society. They will not accept the truth that if you take all the guns off the street you still will have a crime problem, whereas if you take the criminals off the street you cannot have a gun problem.
