Greg Boyle Quotes

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

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

To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.

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.

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

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?

Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department.

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.

As long as I am mayor there will be law and order in Chicago.

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

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

“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.

In today's YouTube world, are officers reluctant to get out of their cars and do the work that controls violent crime? Are officers answering 911 calls but avoiding the informal contact that keeps bad guys from standing around, especially with guns?

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

The police should be focused on policing criminal activity, and that's sort of the beginning, the middle and the end of it for me.

Dealing with crime using archaic methods has become impossible. So, it's imperative that we change the ways to counter them.

The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.

I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.

With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.

Boston is safe. And we're going to keep it safe.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

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

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