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Quotes About Crime

Superman, Iron Man, Batman"—Flyaway Hair winces visibly—"you name it. Rich, powerful, white alpha males who dress up in gimp suits and beat up ethnically diverse lower-class criminals.
~ Charles Stross
Collaring neds for breaking and entering is one thing, managing the gay community outreach program and training constables is another, but international cybercrime in a nuclear bunker under Drum Brae is right off the map.
~ Charles Stross
You can collar criminals until the cows come home, and there'll still be a never-ending supply of greedy fuckwits and chancers.
~ Charles Stross
People." I pause for a moment. "Remind me of Peel's Principles of Policing, again?" Ramona looks blank. Mhari looks skeptical. "Policing by consent," I hint. "Come on, the basic rules we play by? Minimum use of force to achieve compliance, the performance of a police force is judged best by how little crime takes place on their watch rather than by how many heads they kick in, that kind of thing?" "Since
~ Charles Stross
People." I pause for a moment. "Remind me of Peel's Principles of Policing, again?" Ramona looks blank. Mhari looks skeptical. "Policing by consent," I hint. "Come on, the basic rules we play by? Minimum use of force to achieve compliance, the performance of a police force is judged best by how little crime takes place on their watch rather than by how many heads they kick in, that kind of thing?
~ Charles Stross
Intelligence Gathering and Crime Analysis
~ Charles Wheelan
A stab wound less than three millimeters deep is legal and even encouraged. We cannot help you unless a crime has been committed. Fourteen millimeters or more.
~ Charlie Kaufman
Whereas siblings tend to police you, cousins are your partners in crime.
~ Chelsea Handler
So you're positive the killer is a man." "Yes, I think my gender can take responsibility for this one. Women don't cut out other women's hearts." "We can.
~ Chris Bohjalian
These vigilante groups have been tolerated, and often encouraged and utilized, by the ruling elite. And roaming the landscape along with these vigilante groups have been lone gunmen and mass killers who murder for money or power or to appease their own personal demons.
~ Chris Hedges
I would like to say that to mislead the youth is not only deceit but a crime.
~ Rajnath Singh
Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
~ Kamala Harris
What I learned about the mob wasn't through lectures at the academy.
~ Joseph D. Pistone
Rather than trying to find evidence of a crime, the FBI's counterintelligence goal is to identify, monitor and neutralize foreign intelligence activity in the United States.
~ Asha Rangappa
Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.
~ Jacques Audiard
I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.
~ Steve Schirripa
I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else.
~ Sarah Huckabee Sanders
There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns.
~ Paul Broun
My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
~ Yancy Butler
Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.
~ Tom Sizemore
Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain.
~ Frank Abagnale
It was the beginning of that dark time of blood, and crime, and terror which the years of prohibition brought and which was to leave its hideous mutilation not only upon the soul and conscience of the nation, but upon the lives of millions of people—particularly the young everywhere. At
~ Thomas Wolfe
A cop once told me that any burglar who wants to break in will succeed, and the price of the lock determines only how long it might take to do the job.
~ Tom Corcoran
Detective stories are right about one thing, though: once you've committed a crime, nothing is simple. The whole world bends to your exposure. Before you know it, you're on the eleven o'clock news, wearing a jacket on your head.
~ Tom Perrotta