Proactive Policing Quotes

It takes a crook to catch those crooks.

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.

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?'

'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

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

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.

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

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

A cop by themselves on every corner is not going to make that much difference.

Crime prevention has to become a first priority.

Police can only act on intelligence.

Quality-of-life policing is based on probable cause - an officer has witnessed a crime personally or has a witness to the crime.

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

Officers who use stop and search appropriately, with reasonable grounds and in a targeted and intelligence-led way, will always have my full support.

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

The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while.

Without a beat officer system, there can be no crime prevention or supportive investigation. This is the very foundation of sound policing. It is the beat officer who connects with the common man on a daily basis and is the five senses of his area.

Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.

I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk to the officers themselves or the neighbourhood they're in. I'm not in favour of a blanket arming of the police.

Strategies that do show evidence of effectiveness include policing that's focused on high-risk individuals or geographic areas, and/or deterrence-based approaches that hold entire gangs accountable should individual members engage in criminal behavior.

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

Police on the street need the discretion to deal quickly and easily with routine misdemeanours which need to be recorded but need not take up court time - and where there is no doubt about guilt.

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

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