Sentences with phrase «to be tough on crime»

I look forward to assisting his administration with efforts to create policies and initiatives that are tough on crime while being effective, efficient and fair minded.

Think about it this way: being tough on criminals is not always the same thing as being tough on crime.

Being tough on crime does not mean using policies that have proven to be faulty and dangerous.

He wants to see the government being tougher on crime by handing out longer prison sentences and he is keen for magistrates to be given extended sentencing powers.

The Shipley MP wants to see the government being tougher on crime by handing out longer prison sentences and he is keen for magistrates to be given extended sentencing powers.

The rhetoric of being tough on crime so loved by a former Prime Minister misses the point.

At least when the Conservatives were tough on crime, they did not at the same time strip away substantive procedural protections that ensure just and true verdicts,» adds Lacy.

Historically, the presidential candidate who has promised to be tougher on crime domestically and abroad has been favored in elections because of his commitment to preserving America's most treasured and politically correct principle: safety.

This proposal is tough on crime too, making sure that cooperation does take place in other cases.»

«Being tough on crime means being smart on crime,» Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore said in a statement.

«We can truly be tough on crime by being smarter on crime, and that's why we're focusing on initiatives that work,» the governor said moments after the Senate gave the measure final legislative approval.

The Minister of Justice has made statements about being tough on crime.

Arsenault noted the Harper government has made being tough on crime a motto and has brought in mandatory minimums for drug offences.

With a record of being tough on crime, the political right can afford to start being clever about it...

Being seen to be tough on crime was an assured vote winner in the past, but recent setbacks to the government's stop and search powers have shifted the debate.

Based on observation of the behaviour of the government I'd say they've already made up their minds on that one: the Labour party is convinced that in order to stay in power it needs to be seen to be tough on crime, which usually translates into advocating random outbursts of arbitrary state power.

I'd say things like: «We're going to be tough on crime and we will fight them on the beaches.»

What we set out in the 1997 manifesto was to be tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime and we were both.

«We are extremely keen to be tough on crime - we never departed on that - but very keen to address the cause of reoffending.»

«The old parties are falling over each other trying to be tough on crime, but nothing is being done do stop young people getting sucked in to a cycle of crime.»

Being tough on crime was a major plank of Pataki's campaign for governor.

When you deal with major criminal justice reform, it's just inertia, because whatever you do, you're tough on crime, you're soft on crime, you're doing something and everyone hesitates.

Conservative candidates across the country promised in our election manifesto that we would be tough on crime, increase the prison population to 96,000 by 2014 and that «anyone convicted of a knife crime can expect to face a prison sentence.»

«People know my record on big local issues, like saving the children's heart unit at Glenfield hospital and being tough on crime and antisocial behaviour, and they know I've always been independent - minded,» she said.

PW: If they want to be tough on crime, they should be tough on the shark finners.

The real pickle arises when Johnny Canuck says to one level of government «Be tough on crime!»

and then says to another level of government «Don't pay for the Crown attorneys, courts, prisons or cops necessary to be tough on crime.»

This is where a fiscally responsible government proves it is tough on crime because nothing is tougher on criminals, than beating crimes before they happen.

If you could provide references to those who think that being tough on crime will result in a society entirely free of crime, that would be much appreciated.

The important thing to remember is that being tough on crime is about more than locking up offenders...