We've had eight wonderful years of declining crime rates, and at a certain point you just can't push those numbers further down, and we've hit that point,

We don't solve the crime problem, we only control it. And we were controlling it until we let it get out of control.

These are the long-term positive repercussions of a lower crime rate, ... People see that streets are safer and are not as compelled to go out and buy a gun.

The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.

This tendency to look year by year is extremely myopic. There is a certain degree of variability . . . whether the bullet hit the arm or the heart; whether the victim reached the ER in time. It makes it very difficult to interpret the changes.

It takes more than just police. It takes lots of community resources. Hopefully the shootings will be a wake-up call.