I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape. James Q. Wilson Read Quote
I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution. James Q. Wilson Read Quote
There aren’t any liberals left in New York. They’ve all been mugged by now. James Q. Wilson Read Quote
There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want. James Q. Wilson Read Quote
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government. James Q. Wilson Read Quote
If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states’ rights is gone. There’s no support for it in the Supreme Court and there’s no support for it in public opinion. James Q. Wilson Read Quote
Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It’s a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about. James Q. Wilson Read Quote
