Quotes About Crime

If you wanted to kidnap someone, what would you use?" she asked Amit. They were lying in bed, with the lights off. To knock them unconscious. So that you could drag them into the back of your van." Chloroform, I guess." Really?" She brightened. It made her happy that the person she was marrying would commit crimes in the same way as she would.

The idea of making the century's great crime look dull is not banal. Politically, psychologically, the Germans had an idea of genius. The banality was only camouflage. What better way to get the curse out of murder than to make it look ordinary, boring, or trite?… Banality is the adopted disguise of a very powerful will to abolish conscience.

the broken window theory, the idea popularized by Jane Jacobs in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities.1 She examined why some neighborhoods in New York City were safer than others and concluded that neighborhoods that were well maintained by their inhabitants, including small things like picking up trash and fixing broken windows, tended to have less crime. In other words, by regularly fixing small things, you prevent bigger problems from starting.

So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.

We can rob nobles. We can do second-story work. We can slide down chimneys and slip locks and rob coaches and break vaults and do a fine spread of card tricks," said Locke. "I could cut your balls off, if you had any, and replace them with marbles, and you wouldn't notice for a week. But I hate to tell you that the one class of criminal we really haven't associated with, ever, is fucking pirates!" "We're at a bit of a loss

So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.

Indeed, a murder weapon is a tool. But not all tools are murder weapons.

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It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only a target for untamed fantasy.

Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available.

When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades.

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.

You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

You shoot another guy—well, okay, this is Baltimore. You shoot three guys, it's time to admit you have a problem.

I've spent a fair amount of time down at the worlder. I've been down there and helped arrest people that are smuggling drugs in.

Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.

Next time we see you, you'll be on trial for some ingenious crime!" Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. "Just as long as they know my name.

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth. - More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927

You know my present way of life. Can you suggest any additions to it, in the way of crime, that will reasonably insure my going to some other place.

A robber is more high-toned than what a pirate is—as a general thing. In most countries they're awful high up in the nobility—dukes and such.

He pointed to the money, and said: The love of it is the root of all evil. There it lies, the ancient tempter, newly red with the shame of its latest victory--the dishonor of a priest of God and his two poor juvenile helpers in crime. If it could but speak, let us hope that it would be constrained to confess that of all its conquests this was the basest and the most pathetic.