Jack Johnson Quotes

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.

There are many factors that affect crime rates. But we recognize that the main reason crime has decreased has always been - and always will be - the dangerous and stressful work done by state and local law enforcement officers day in and day out.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them…

The essence to reducing violent crime in our society is to take these people [criminals] off the street.

“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.

Crime is not going to be stopped by police departments. You have to have police departments but alone they cannot stop crime.

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

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

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.

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

Fighting crime is not cheap, because it requires boots on the ground.

But passing by all other considerations, and contemplating merely the political institutions of the United States, I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them.

Broken-windows enforcement is really about controlling behavior to such an extent you change it: If you deal with the little things, you can keep them from going into the big things. Zero tolerance implies zealotry. It's oppressive. And it's not achievable. You're never going to be in a position to eliminate all crime.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

Crimes happen, but some are preventable.

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

No place is unpoliceable; no crime is immune to better enforcement efforts.

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?

When crime was spiking in our communities, Dad wrote the crime bill that put 100,000 cops on the streets and led to an eight-year drop in crime across the country.

Putting cops on streets is the most effective way to combat crime.

Since 1992 we have made dramatic progress in reducing violent crime.

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.