Crime Rates Quotes

Criminality is always the result of poverty.

Jacob Zuma

Poverty, Results, Multicultural

Source: www.spiegel.de

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A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

Frank Vincent

Believe, Home, People

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With the frenzied pace in our own country, with the degenerating school system, with a crime rate that rises 30% a year, and with politicians that seem more interested in posturing than in governing, it has become more difficult, or should I say challenging, to achieve that inner symbiosis with life.

Frederick Lenz

Country, School, Buddhism

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If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.

Marion Barry

Stupid, Silly, Dumb

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The continued increase in many crime indicators and the fact that the overall crime rate has not seen a marked decrease while the Liberals have been in power is a clear indication that the Liberal approach to combating crime, as on so many other issues, has failed.

Stephen Harper

Issues, Facts, Crime

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Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.

Michael Parenti

Years, Political, Police

"Democracy for the Few". Book by Michael Parenti, 1974.

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Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.

Luke Scott

Country, Gun, Law

"Answer Man: Luke Scott talks Nugent, hunting and Obama origin". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. December 7, 2010.

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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Marion Barry

Funny, Country, Crazy

Quoted in Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 1989

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Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

James Carriger Paine

Libertarian Party, Alcohol, Drug

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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

Ted Nugent

Gun, America, Citizens

"CNN's Piers Morgan Battles with Ted Nugent on Guns, Says Second Amendment Almost Killed Gabby Giffords". www.newsbusters.org. May 19, 2011.

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

Michael Bloomberg

Cities, America, Crime

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Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

Jacob Zuma

Country, Democracy, Fundamentals

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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?

Hugh Mackay

Fall, Games, Media

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The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

Imelda Marcos

Real, People, Philippines

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I've got no dark secrets, I wasn't beaten up, my parents were kind to me and there was a low crime rate where we lived. Maybe that's where the comedy comes from, as some sort of reaction to the safe, boring suburbs.

Will Ferrell

Dark, Parent, Secret

"The $29 million man". Interview with Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

Cliff Stearns

Home, College, Income

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School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple human happiness - all are demonstrably affected by how (and whether) we connect with our family and friends and neighbours and co-workers.

Robert D. Putnam

Suicide, School, Simple

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Our nation was built and civilized by men and women who used guns in self-defense and in pursuit of peace. One wonders indeed, if the rising crime rate, isn't due as much as anything to the criminal's instinctive knowledge that the average victim no longer has means of self-protection.

Ronald Reagan

Mean, Gun, Men

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It is unfortunate that we have to live in a fortress, but we are forced to do so given the high crime rate in the country. I travel with two bodyguards all the time and there is substantial cost involved

Vivian Reddy

Soccer, Country, Two

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A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.

Ann Coulter

Black And White, Motherhood, Differences

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Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with each other.

Michelle Alexander

United States, Littles, Today

Source: www.truth-out.org

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I like to deal with things I heard about, ... People are always getting their house broken into around the holidays. That's when the crime rate goes up.

Ice Cube

Holiday, People, Broken

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But the good news, the crime rate is down. Isn't that amazing? Less banks are being robbed. Well, sure. A, there's less banks. B, the banks don't have any money left. And C, nobody's got gas money for the getaway car. So, right there, crime is down!

Jay Leno

Car, Gas Money, News

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Football leads to a crime rate among people that play in the NFL that is less than the gen pop, the general population. The numbers have been run. It's just that people who play football are stars and, as such, what they do occurs with greater media scrutiny. So when one of them happens to engage in some sort of questionable behavior, it happens to (in a lot of it people's minds) speak for the whole sport and everybody that plays it.

Rush Limbaugh

Sports, Running, Football

Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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If we socialized boys like girls, we would have a much lower crime rate in America.

Meda Chesney-Lind

Girl, Boys, America

Source: www.motherjones.com

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