Quotes About Crime

Some people just need killing.

In addition, when a neighborhood's crime victims are portrayed as victims-sympathetically and without blame, as humans rather than as statistics-people living in other parts of the city are more inclined to support social services for the area, which in turn can reduce the crime rate.

Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.

Television news programs survive on scares. On local newscasts, where producers live by the dictum "if it bleeds, it leads," drug, crime, and disaster stories make up most of the news portion of the broadcasts.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

There always will be tension between the need to protect the innocent and the obligation to punish the guilty, but the current American system does a tolerable job of both. The fact is, the overwhelming majority of prison inmates are guilty of serious crimes that pose significant risks to the American public. Any argument for a dramatic downscaling of our sentencing policies will have to address these realities of imprisonment.

It was an ugly day. It was an ugly room. Except for the body.

Can they, like get fingerprints from her neck? Can they catch the guy that way?" "This guy isn't an amateur. He probably used gloves." "How do you know he isn't an amateur, Sherlock?" "There's bruising on the left-hand knuckles, and on the sides of both hands. Probably would be on the right-hand knuckles, too, if we had them." "She hit him," Howie said. "She fought back.

Wilson had been killed by everybody. It was this that made his death special, the children had been told. It was justice, it was all the people showing how much they hated this crime. Killing was justice when everybody joined in.

Glorious empires can be founded on crime, and noble religions on imposture.

I'm a reasonably accomplished journalist. I've worked as an investigative journalist, I've done crime beat stuff.

Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.

There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway's hassling his mother. But he wasn't like that.

It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns reduce crime.

During the debates for mayor, I was continually pressed on my position on the policing procedure known as 'stop and frisk' - which is actually in law enforcement known as 'stop, question and frisk' - and why I believed that, if used properly, it could reduce crime without infringing on personal liberties and human rights.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.

The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is not disarming them. The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is to arrest, prosecute, convict and jail criminal offenders, especially armed career criminals illegally using guns. This is the way to reduce gun violence.

You don't reduce crime by taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me.