A Quote by Marion Barry

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Marion Barry

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Country Crime Crime Rate Crime Rates Lowest Outside Rates Washington

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Marion Barry
American - Politician
March 6, 1936 - November 23, 2014

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.

Marion Barry

What's true for New York is true for most of the country: We are a long way removed from the double-digit interest rates and unemployment rates, and the soaring crime rates, of the early 1980s.

Max Boot

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.

Luke Scott

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.

Marion Barry

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.

Mitch Landrieu

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

Hugh Mackay

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

James Carriger Paine

Chávez inherited a dysfunctional judicial system and more or less regional (that is to say: bad) crime rates. He leaves an anarchic judicial system and horrendous crime rates. He neglected, bungled, and politicized policing, the courts and the jails.

Rory Carroll

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

Leona Lewis

...It is statistically irrefutable that those American cities with stringent "gun control" (e.g. N.Y.C., D.C., Chicago, L.A.) have higher crime rates. It is also irrefutable that those 31 states which have made conceal carry of handguns easy for law-abiding citizens have correspondingly enjoyed significant drops in their crime rates.

Kenneth W. Royce

Our priority has always been to have the lowest cost so we can be comfortable with weak freight rates. A big part of having the lowest cost is maintaining the largest network, and this means growing market share.

Soren Skou

If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.

Mark Steyn

I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the white population that stereotypes and makes assumptions about African Americans because they don't inject the history of slavery and Jim Crow into current incarceration rates, or crime rates, or poverty rates, or what have you.

Barack Obama

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

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