Quotes About Crime

Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.

An informer's word was always believed. Every crime became a capital one, even the utterance of a few careless words.

We do not hate the person but the crime they commit and our job was to treat them as humanely as possible so they had a chance of reforming.

Since 1980, the rate of incarceration for women has risen more than 700 percent. The majority of these women are imprisoned for nonviolent offenses.

'Criminal Intent' scripts are very good. Like others involved in 'Law & Order' stuff, I've come to appreciate the lack of 'soap,' if you will. The story dominates. You don't spend a lot of time with the psychological underpinnings of the police.

Crime is a product of social excess.

In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma.

Anyone who says, 'Books don't change anything,' or - more commonly - that crime fiction is the wrong genre for promoting social change - should take a closer look.

I definitely hope women know that abuse/harassment/blackmail on social media is also a crime, and the police definitely help.

We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens human life, skyrocketing prisoner recidivism rates that rob our communities of husbands and fathers - and recognize that there is a societal role in rehabilitation and restoration.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

No one would normally accuse me of being soft on crime.

No politician after the Nixon-Agnew years would say, 'I was against the death penalty,' because they replaced 'soft on communism' with 'soft on crime.' You just see the horror of this thing.

A judge sometimes must release a criminal. He doesn't like it, she doesn't like it, but the law requires it. And the context of an election in which you are "soft on crime" betrays a misunderstanding of the judicial process and a misunderstanding of the Constitution.

No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.

When I was in So Solid Crew, people were always asking if we were associated with the rise in gun crime.

You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.

Excluding certain problems from the political debate by making it a crime to discuss them won't lead to the disappearance of these concerns, let alone contribute to a solution.

You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.

Some people, because of their needs, go and become criminals. I have been very fortunate that I wasn't attracted to these kinds of solutions.

I've always been interested in forensics and the way they solve things.