City Quote by Raymond Kelly

Opponents of New York City's proactive style of policing struggle mightily to downplay its most obvious benefit: the largest crime drop on record, concentrated…

— Heather Mac Donald

In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is…

— Fran Lebowitz

The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from violent crime in America? Inner city communities.…

— Don Winslow

The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like the farm…

— Elizabeth Neel

As a former New Yorker, I understand crime's hold over an electorate's emotions.

— Jonathan Capehart

For every good person that comes from Brooklyn or the Bronx, there are some bad people who bring their more criminal-intensive ways to small…

— Curtis Sliwa

“In addition, when a neighborhood's crime victims are portrayed as victims-sympathetically and without blame, as humans rather than as statistics-people living in other parts…

— Barry Glassner

New Yorkers have borne witness to a slew of horrific crimes that strike at the heart of their collective sense of security.

— Jonathan Capehart

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

— Al Sharpton

New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a…

— Carter Burwell

I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.

— Dominick Dunne

The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become.

— Trevor Moore