Quotes About Crime

When, then, we ask why a crime was done, we believe it not, unless it appear that there might have been some desire of obtaining some of those which we called lower goods, or a fear of losing them. For they are beautiful and comely; although compared with those higher and beatific goods, they be abject and low.

The police department's focus is on the FBI's Crime Index; those are the seven crimes that are reported monthly to the FBI: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny theft, and motor vehicle theft.

The dark shadow of crime spreads right and left, from the Penitentiary and the Workhouse, over all the institutions, the Asylum, the Alms-House and Charity Hospital; so that, in the minds of the people at large, all suffer alike from an evil repute." Being poor had become a character trait that needed "correction," like the impulse to steal or cheat. The Christian impulse to help the needy had been tamped down and replaced with an inclination to punish them.

the relation between crime and poverty is no more essential than between crime and wealth." Where were the standing armies of police to monitor the crimes of the elite?

Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty peak with ocean waves crashing down below, and then… justice served! If they wrote about the real world, four-fifths of the story would consist of the hero sitting in a library for months and following false leads.

to see passion in every crime, and use that passion to excuse it.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.

Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

such banditti who might for half the sum that is paid them be exterminated from the Earth.

He has the memory of a convict, the balls of a fireman, and the eyesight of a housebreaker. When there is crime to fight, Landsman tears around Sitka like a man with his pant leg caught on a rocket. It's like there's a film score playing behind him, heavy on the castanets. The problem comes in the hours when he isn't working, when his thoughts start blowing out the open window of his brain like pages from the blotter. Sometimes it takes a heavy paperweight to pin them down.

open the door in the gate. She had always found a paradox in the crime of blasphemy for it seemed to her that any God who could be discountenanced by the words of human beings was by definition not worthy of reverence, but

In the law of innocence, for every man not guilty of a crime, there is a man out there who is. And to prove true innocence, the guilty man must be found and exposed to the world.

Michael Connelly

That's extortion," Cerrone said. "No, asshole, that's justice.

Bosch always thought that if you started with the assumption that murder is an unreasonable action, then how could there ever be a fully

Courts across the country had long approved the use of deception and trickery by police in an interview setting with a suspect, holding that an innocent person would see through the deception and not falsely confess to the crime.

Darius McGinley had had only one profession since age eleven, drug dealer. He'd had only one true family, a gang.

New York Times bestsellers The Wrong Side of Goodbye and The Crossing. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series and Lincoln Lawyer series, have sold more than

studying the rim for marks left by the weapon that had fired

Michael Connelly