Quotes About Crime

Already sweating though it was just nine in the morning, Amelia Sachs pushed through a stand of tall grass. She was walking the strip search—what the Crime Scene people called it—an S-shaped pattern. Nothing. She bent her head to the speaker/mike pinned to her navy-blue uniform blouse.

I criminalisti adorano i sospetti che soffrono di malattie.

chest. 'You are committing a felony! There

Jeffery Deaver

Ross Macdonald

Natural selection applies to criminal activity, as well as to newts and simians.

the only people who made a profit out of crime were the lawyers and the criminals

It was that time every afternoon when prisoners were released from their cells for an hour and allowed to walk around the yard, get some exercise and be reunited with their mates so they could work on their next crime before they were released. Mellor

Divorce never. Murder several times.

What brilliant criminals the Leader and his crowd are. They kidnap the nation by seizing our children. From The Garden of Beasts.

I'm not a monster. But I do kill people, have been for more than two decades. Mostly, I'm doing the world a favor. ~Prologue~

Was he thinking serial killer? She was but did not want to voice that opinion yet. This was different and the same. Very much the same as Gail and Charlie, her mother's superiors, made inferior by Arleen's knife. Her mom's killing streak ran for twelve years, and would have continued indefinitely, if she had not taken Nadine's classmate. Right after Nadine had told her mom that Sandra was terrorizing her, the high school senior went missing.

Our politicians are more fearful of the politics of terrorism—of the charge that they do not take terrorism seriously—than they are of the crime itself.

People are starving, and this is their solution, he eventually said. They turn victims into criminals. They aim guns at people who can't shoot back.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

We're not hearing any Hollywood people talk about the Crime Family Foundation. We're not talking about any specific details about Hillary Clinton's work on the foundation.

Sometimes criminals work and for cops and criminals have favourite cops... (Person of Interest)

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!

What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

An increased police presence is not a panacea for our subway safety issues, but it's a step in the right direction.