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.
Washington at that time had one of the highest murder rates in the nation.
If gun control worked, the District of Columbia would be the safest place in America.
America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.
But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.
Outside of the killings, we have one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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.
At any one time, there are approximately 1.2 million fugitives at large in the United States - it is likely that approximately half a million of these are dangerous fugitives.
Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.
Thousands of Americans have been killed by illegal immigrants.
It [the death penalty] is a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.