We're here today to address the issue of violent crime.
Topic · on the record
Law enforcement
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Our crime bill will hire 100,000 new police officers and expand community policing.
The trick to that is -- you obviously want to avoid a definition that is going to fill up the prisons for life with people who really are not in the category that Americans know are the people who are really responsible for a huge…
With the crime bill, we'll get the police.
This law will give us the tools we need to safeguard children from those who have perpetrated crimes of child abuse.
I think there is now a clear bipartisan commitment for the 100,000 police officers on the street.
Director Freeh is also carrying our message of commitment and cooperation to Italian law enforcement officials.
I am directing the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury to do all they can to strengthen the cooperation between American and Italian law enforcement.
Putting more police on the streets will do more to reduce crime than anything else we can do.
Boot camps have been endorsed by every major law enforcement organization in America.
I intend to give the folks on the front lines the resources and the support they need to win the fight against crime.
I believe that this Nation is really prepared in a way that it has not been before, at least in my experience, to do something about violent crime.
I think the margin of Mayor Lanier's reelection is evidence that people know that if you properly deploy trained personnel, it just doesn't serve to catch criminals quicker, but because of the relationships they develop in the community…
Put those 100,000 police officers on the street.
More police reduces crime; it doesn't just help you catch criminals.
This country is going to have a very hard time making it unless we do something about this wave of crime and violence.