Crime Statistics Quotes

We here in America make up 5 percent of the world’s population, but we make up 25 percent of jailed prisoners. We have now over 3000 … Federal crimes.

The United States homicide rate without guns is higher than most European country’s homicide rates including guns.

If you ignore the homicides, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.

As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime.

Do you know that Negroes are 10 percent of the population of St. Louis and are responsible fro 58% of its crimes? We’ve got to face that. And we’ve got to do something about our moral standards. We know that there are many things wrong in the white world, but there are many things wrong in the black world, too. We can’t keep on blaming the white man. There are things we must do for ourselves.

Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number.

An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. That's 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes.

Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.

Liberals pretend to believe that when two random hoodlums kill a gay man in Oklahoma, it's evidence of a national trend, but when a million people buy a book, it proves absolutely nothing about the book-buying public.

Italy is a tough country to be a comedian in - I can't invent stuff like this. Nearly eighty crooks in Parliament - that's about one crook in twelve. It's worse than Scampia, the most dangerous Naples slum, which is infested by the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia. There, the criminals are only one in fifteen!

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

An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

It's very hard to be cut off in Glasgow because it's such a small city. You know, we have the highest rate of per-capita imprisonment, certainly in Britain, maybe in Europe. We have a very high murder rate here. So most people will know someone who's been to prison.

If gun control worked, the District of Columbia would be the safest place in America.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

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.

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

The justice system [in Mexico] is totally inoperative…. 2 percent of all crime is someone put in jail. How bad is that?

Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing is fine. Its always had a reputation as that. ... You know, Gordie Howe, when I was watching hockey, was the toughest guy in the league playing for the Red Wings. He represented that tough aura.

Property crime is down 40 percent. We just don't want to see it creep back up. We've had 25 years of very good cooperation.

If crime went down 100 percent it would still be 50 percent higher than it should be.