Crime Management Quotes

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.

Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if police numbers are the holy grail. But actually what matters is what those police are doing. It's about how those police are deployed.

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.

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

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society.

Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in which the crimes were committed could demand that the convicts' country of origin incarcerate the prisoners for the terms to which they were sentenced.... Foreign felons in U.S. prisons are exacerbating out budget and law enforcement problems.... We will never get countries to take back their prisoners unless we have some leverage. NAFTA gives us that opportunity.

The Home Office culture was one of being just above the problem, of hovering just out of reach of knowing what was going on on the ground, whether it was crime or immigration.

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

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

We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.

I think that dealing with guns is one way to handle the violent-crime issues that we have in this country.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

We can agree that keeping serious criminals in prison is an effective means of preserving public safety, but we must also recognize that the axiom of 'putting people in jail and throwing away the key' does not apply to all offenders universally and can actually be counterproductive.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Arresting people is not going to lower the crime rate