tough on crime

I want to be tough on crime and good for civil rights.

The Republicans say that they want to be tough on crime.

In fact it's a politics bill, meant to make Congress look tough on crime.

That is the constructive way to be tough on crime.

The evident reason is that everyone wants to look "tough on crime."

If it comes to that, whatever happened to being tough on crime and its causes?

"In my opinion, this is a very easy way to show you're tough on crime."

Getting tough on crime has long been an easy way to impress voters.

And everybody wants to appear tough on crime these days."

We Americans are not tough on crime at all.

He thinks there is political mileage in looking tough on crime.

I think you can be tough on crime and pro-civil rights.

And in London, politicians have increased calls for getting tougher on crime.

We are tough on crime, as the advocates of harsh measures put it.

Senator Ashcroft thought it would help to run as tough on crime and execution.

They'd say, "This is a women, so how could she be tough on crime?' "

And the Administration's support for computer companies is outweighed by its desire to be tough on crime.

"Safety was a good selling point for getting tough on crime, but we failed to realize the costs."

It becomes a code word for being tough on crime."

Political leaders under pressure to get tough on crime may well find the Guard a tempting option.

They vote for anything that looks "tough on crime."

Most people who want to be tough on crime don't care what happens to inmates.

"I don't need to do this to be perceived as being tough on crime," she said.

The governor was by no means exclusively concerned with appearing to be tough on crime, however.

If crime went down, politicians still got tough on crime.