Jeff Ross Quotes

The police need to come down to street level.

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

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.

It is imperative that state and local jurisdictions not scrimp on investing in law enforcement.

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

Let's talk about the real issues of crime which people are worried about. What people are worried about is the rise in violent crime. We believe that more community policemen and women are part of the answer to this.

We have to bring back law and order in this country and I think the police are phenomenal people.

Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a police officer, a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close 'What are you guys doing on this corner at 1 o'clock in the morning' policing. We need to be careful it doesn't drift away from us in the age of viral videos, or there will be profound consequences.

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.

In New York City we have the biggest police force in the country. We have 35,000 uniformed officers. We're able to mass officers in significant numbers if we had to.

Local people do want to see more police on the streets.

As mayor, I would support law enforcement, not knock it down.

Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.

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

“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.

We need to prioritize our law enforcement efforts, and if somebody's gonna smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody else any harm, then perhaps there are other things that our cops should be looking at to engage in and try to clean up some of the other problems that we have in society that are appropriate for law enforcement to do.”

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.

We need the cops, especially in the black community.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'

We can't pick out certain incidentals that don't go our way and act like the cops are all bad... Do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn't for the cops?

Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services that help make their communities safer.

I was a policeman for 18 years.