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Strategies that do show evidence of effectiveness include policing that's focused on high-risk individuals or geographic areas, and/or deterrence-based approaches that hold entire gangs accountable should individual members engage in criminal behavior.
Ken Cuccinelli
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There's nothing conservative about allowing ourselves to become so inured to a 'tough on crime' frame of mind that we would abandon tested alternatives that can yield better outcomes.
Ken Cuccinelli
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Senator Cruz has done well in Republican states.
Ken Cuccinelli
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My view is that homosexual acts - not homosexuality, but homosexual acts - are wrong. They're intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural-law-based country, it's appropriate to have policies that reflect that... They don't comport with natural law.
Ken Cuccinelli
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I think it was in 1971 or 1974, the Supreme Court ruled marriage is not a subject that the federal government can exercise jurisdiction over, including the courts. To do that, we would need an amendment to the Constitution.
Ken Cuccinelli
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We have a battle over the fundamentals of our country.
Ken Cuccinelli
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The truth is our friend.
Ken Cuccinelli
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I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.
Ken Cuccinelli
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I look Italian, but I act Irish.
Ken Cuccinelli
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An e-cigarette does not function in manner of a traditional cigarette because it functions electrically rather than via combustion of a material such as tobacco.
Ken Cuccinelli
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Telling the public, 'We'll get to it later,' is inadequate. That's what the federal government does.
Ken Cuccinelli
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I didn't run for office to make friends.
Ken Cuccinelli
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In the Republican Party, we talk all the time about the importance of free markets and open competition. It seems to me that if we don't practice what we preach, we won't have much credibility with others.
Ken Cuccinelli
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There are just some things about being president that are difficult.
Ken Cuccinelli
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Elections are about choices.
Ken Cuccinelli
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I don't play golf with presidents.
Ken Cuccinelli
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Put simply, no one in state government can create new specially protected classes except the General Assembly with the concurrence of the Governor.
Ken Cuccinelli
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People in this country don't realize how tyrannical the Left is. It is phenomenally intolerant of any views other than its own, and it must label them as bad, evil, malodorous in some way.
Ken Cuccinelli
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I ran for attorney general to be attorney general.
Ken Cuccinelli
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I love algebra. Love it.
Ken Cuccinelli
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Am I happy with the choice? No I'm not. But I'm going to make my choice, and I expect to vote for Donald Trump.
Ken Cuccinelli
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Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it.
Ken Cuccinelli
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It is hard to argue that the conservative movement is not having success.
Ken Cuccinelli
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We can agree that keeping serious criminals in prison is an effective means of preserving public safety, but we must also recognize that the axiom of 'putting people in jail and throwing away the key' does not apply to all offenders universally and can actually be counterproductive.
Ken Cuccinelli
