"You can eliminate crime," he says now. "Just become Saudi Arabia".
Or finally to discover how to eliminate crime in "Crime and Its Causes" by William Douglas Morrison (1902)?
Restoring order, it seemed, was not the same thing as eliminating crime.
As others have observed, that requirement would be like requiring the justice system to eliminate crime by a certain date.
And while many Afghans complain about Islamic strictures that seem medieval, they have praised the Taliban for eliminating crime.
Scrapping high-value notes would not eliminate crime and corruption but doing so would increase criminals' costs and make them easier to detect, Sands argued.
But at a community meeting on the issue last month, Inspector Robert Richard, the commanding officer of the 70th Precinct, said: "Teddy Roosevelt couldn't eliminate crime.
Another view, which fell in and out of favor, was that commerce alone could provide the engine that would eliminate crime, poverty and the slums that had developed after decades of industrialization and immigration.
We'll never eliminate crime completely but we will get to a point where it's reasonably under control.
Is there a feasible solution to eliminating crime, besides incarceration?
