Crime Rates Quotes

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

With sad, depressing predictability, the children of today's underclass become tomorrow's criminals and dropouts.

No segment of the population has lost more by the agendas of the liberal constituencies of the Democratic Party than the black population. The teachers' unions, environmental fanatics and the ACLU are just some of the groups to whose interests blacks have been sacrificed wholesale. Lousy education and high crime rates in the ghettos, and unaffordable housing elsewhere with building restrictions, are devastating prices to pay for liberalism.

Do you know that Negroes are 10 percent of the population of St. Louis and are responsible fro 58% of its crimes? We’ve got to face that. And we’ve got to do something about our moral standards. We know that there are many things wrong in the white world, but there are many things wrong in the black world, too. We can’t keep on blaming the white man. There are things we must do for ourselves.

Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number.

The crime bill basically incentivized the prison system. There were quotas, mandatory minimums. You have to serve 85 percent of your time, so it is guaranteeing that bodies will always be locked up. And that went mostly towards minority communities and poor communities, where crime is more rampant.

The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.

When I worked as a prosecutor in Richmond, Virginia in the 1990s, that city, like so much of America, was experiencing horrific levels of violent crime. But to describe it that way obscures an important truth: for the most part, white people weren't dying; black people were dying. Most white people could drive around the problem.

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the white population that stereotypes and makes assumptions about African Americans because they don't inject the history of slavery and Jim Crow into current incarceration rates, or crime rates, or poverty rates, or what have you.

I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not.

I think we do have to be conscious that sometimes there are different issues with women offenders than there are with men.

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.

The majority of our criminals that we lock up are non-violent offenders.

The USA has more people in prison that any other country, including countries with much larger populations. 13% of the population is black but 80% of the people in prison are black, mostly for soft crimes.

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

We don't deed more assault rifles on our streets right now.

If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.