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Quotes About Crime

We need to do a better job identifying what's contributing to the crime and making sure we hold people accountable in a way that addresses that root cause.
~ Chesa Boudin
It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.
~ George H. White
When a black person kills a black person, the media ignores it completely.
~ Ben Shapiro
Illegal is not a race, it is a crime.
~ Russell Pearce
Ask any cop, and they'll assure you that it doesn't exactly take a forensics team from NCIS to figure out that someone is an illegal.
~ Mike Gallagher
To be clear, any attempt to hack or to do anything nefarious is wrong and illegal.
~ Sean Spicer
The Home Office culture was one of being just above the problem, of hovering just out of reach of knowing what was going on on the ground, whether it was crime or immigration.
~ David Blunkett
If we can find a way to enforce our laws and keep people from coming into our country illegally while maintaining a strong legal immigration system, I think that's going to benefit everyone. If you come here illegally, and you commit a crime, you're not going to be able to stay in our country.
~ Ronna McDaniel
No place is unpoliceable; no crime is immune to better enforcement efforts.
~ William Bratton
It is not a crime to build revolutionary resistance against the single greatest enemy of the people of the world: U.S. imperialism.
~ Susan Rosenberg
War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
~ Carlos Saavedra Lamas
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
~ Jose Bergamin
Digital safety is no different to physical safety. You can do your upmost to minimise it. You can arm yourself to protect yourself, but in the end there are criminals everywhere and that's the way of the world.
~ Dido Harding
I think women believed for a long time that it was inappropriate for them to be interested in true crime. It made them judge themselves, or feel weird or ghoulish.
~ Karen Kilgariff
Incarceration is supposed to keep the community safe from your behavior.
~ Judy Sheindlin
Why categorise crime as a gender issue? Why should a man or woman be more inclined to believe in certain basic values?
~ Smriti Irani
I think that, in the '60s, you had lots of things going on in the culture which tended to decrease attraction to marriage, attraction to religion, and which tended to increase attraction to crime.
~ Charles Murray
We should be extremely cautious about continuing to increase sentences as a routine response to concerns over crime.
~ David Gauke
The increasing crimes in Chennai have become a cause for concern. Chain snatching has become a routine affair.
~ Tamilisai Soundararajan
The stories conveyed a sense of shock that these atrocious acts could have happened in such a prosperous and tranquil town. If the charges were true, this was certainly an appalling crime. After 30 years as a journalist, I wasn't naive enough to believe that perfect towns produced only perfect kids. Still, I was curious about what had gone wrong in this perfect town, the antithesis of Newark, where children grew up with every advantage.
~ Bernard Lefkowitz
People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.
~ Bernhard Schlink
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
~ Bertolt Brecht
What kind of times are these, when To talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
~ Bertolt Brecht
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
~ Bertolt Brecht