Political Quotes

“Fighting crime is serious business. It requires a two pronged approach: One is priority prosecution to remove those individuals, the worst offenders, from society and put them away for as long as you can get them away. The challenge we face in law enforcement is what are we going to do with the majority of the people who remain? There are countless examples from all over the country of priority prosecution programs. When they mix prevention programs and get police officers involved with the school and open up schools for kids to provide prevention programs, it works. It is working in the city of Lowell, where crime prevention programs have resulted in dramatically lowering gang violence in that city. Crime prevention programs have worked in Summerville, MA, dramatically decreasing the rates of crime. Fighting crime is not a political issue, it should not be partisan. It should not be Republican versus Democrat. Let us keep what we passed 4 months ago. It was the best crime initiative that ever came from this Congress. And now we are getting involved in partisan politics. It works. Let us keep it.”