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. Votes: 4
Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims. Votes: 3
Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence. Votes: 2
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it. Votes: 2
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts. Votes: 2
We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime. Votes: 2
How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime? Votes: 2
We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm. Votes: 2
The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand. Votes: 2
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. Votes: 2
In the process of ego, in the process of lobbying and in the process of just criticising for stake of criticism or in the process of politicising, don't commit national crime. Don't prevent exploration in the country. Let us move ahead more aggressively; it is in the best interest of the country. Votes: 2
If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents. Votes: 2
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime. Votes: 0
On balance, the use of encryption, just like the use of good locks on doors, has the net effect of preventing a lot more crime than it might assist. Votes: 0
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Votes: 4 Ernest Hemingway
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes. Votes: 3 Jamais Cascio