When you get rid of the policies like a presumption against bail that we got rid of in Virginia, like the bail policies that you have here, the ending of cash bail here in New York City, it's like termites eating away at that stool.

We have a spike in crime here in New York City: 1,500 rapes, up seven percent, robberies up 26 percent, felony assaults up 13 percent, burglaries up 23 percent, grand larcenies up 26 percent, auto thefts up 32 percent, all accounting for a…

I actually care what is happening in this country.

In short, according to this memo, if you hold a gun to a clerk's face and ask, 'Empty the cash register, sir,' we are going to take that and that's going to be a misdemeanor, no big deal.

I apologize on behalf of the Congress.

Decreasing felonies to misdemeanors is dangerous and places the victim last.

My constituents are scared because they're watching what's happening in New York City, and they know that the Shenandoah Valley, if they adopt the wrong policies, if they elect the wrong prosecutors, their lives could turn for the worse…

If you want to see what happens when you don't prosecute people for throwing bricks through windows, starting fires in downtown, running everybody else out, come to Portland.

I actually on the Criminal Justice Subcommittee tried to pass some laws on a bipartisan basis.

Our government was stood up to protect people's rights to life, liberty, and property, and it's not doing it.

When Democrats took over the House and Senate and the Governor's Mansion between 2019-2021, they reversed policies that were put in place in 1995 that abolished parole, instituted mandatory minimum sentences and presumptions against bail.