Between Quote by Cedric Richmond

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

— George Pelecanos

Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are…

— Cliff Stearns

There are many factors that affect crime rates. But we recognize that the main reason crime has decreased has always been - and always…

— William Barr

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe…

— Anonymous

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

— Michael Parenti

I think there is a lot of crime caused by desperation, and it doesn't mean that people commit crime because they're poor, but certainly…

— Peter Moskos

I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to get into…

— Al Sharpton

Crime is a subject that needs to be looked at in-depth since the percentage is on the rise.

— Sudha Chandran

“Although there is little difference in the overall crime rates between the United States and other high income countries, the homicide rate in the…

— Michael Waldman

Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than lurking in…

— Ann Coulter

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the…

— Alan Mollohan

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