Quotes About Crime

Many police departments still use DNA evidence the way they have used fingerprints and tire tracks: to determine whether a suspect committed the crime.

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.

Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.

L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.

I have no respect for gangs today. None. They just drive by and shoot people. At least in the old days like in West Side Story the gangs used to dance with each other.

New Yorkers are so impersonal if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!

Chicago was started by a bunch of New Yorkers who said "Gee I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty but it just isn't cold enough."

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

Fear has played a central strategic role in the Republican Party since at least World War II. It was Communism in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. It was crime in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. It was the fear of terrorism in the George W. Bush years. It was integration and immigration—people we do not know, religion we do not understand, and cultures we find alien—through much of our history.

Black saw the connection between crime and poverty.

Sue and Andy Parlour's book Jack the Ripper: The Whitechapel Murders

Philip Sugden, in The Complete Jack the Ripper

Stephen Knight, author of Jack the Ripper, The Final Solution

Punishment creates crime.

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.

It was the members of the public who didn't seem to care what was happening on the streets around them, who hurried on by when they saw crimes being committed, too cowardly to intervene. Sometimes it seemed like the 'them' was everyone, and the 'us' was simply me, a lone copper engaged in a one-man battle against the injustices of the world.