Quotes About Crime

people born in Cuba represented less than 1% of the U.S. population but committed 41% of Medicare fraud.

We can bring in all the guns and drugs we need and bring out all the bodies of people we don't.

Criminals were a lazy bunch. If they weren't, they'd get their MBAs and rob with impunity.

In the sane world, criminals could be negotiated with, threatened, bought off. For the most part they were rational folks just suffering from poor impulse control, arrogance or lack of moral rectitude. In an insane world, what was negotiable, threatening, legal tender? Where monsters be, monsters' rules are law and only the monster knows what they are.

It's so unreal and beastly.' 'Murder is beastly. Unfortunately it's not unreal.

What was the crime, who did it, when was it done, and where? How done, and with what motive, who in the deed did share?

What I'd like is a case. You know how it happens in these crime stories, chaps....I read a good many of them and it's always the same thing. The keen young P. C. happens to be on the spot when there's a homicide, His Super has to call in the Yard and before you know where you are the P. C.'s working with one of the Big Four and getting praised for his witty deductions.

A police force is about political influence, and it always has been. If I can't get up the home secretary's arse and get you the funding that you're pissing away, you won't be in a position to solve your crimes, any of you.

Several studies have found that child poverty costs the United States about $ 1 trillion each year in increased health, crime, prison and welfare spending as well as in reduced earnings. That's about $ 8,000 per household annually. Most researchers find that each dollar invested in reducing child disadvantage would save the country at least $ 7.

The United States has chosen policies over the last half century that have resulted in higher levels of homelessness, overdose deaths, crime and inequality—and now it's time to make a different choice.

Most studies find that each murder in America leads to costs of between $10 million and $12 million, including police and prison bills and social services for families of victims and perpetrators. The University of Chicago Crime Lab calculates that gun violence costs every Chicago household about $2,500 a year. Crime

Academics, students, readers of and writers for most leftish newspapers and all but the bravest Muslim and poor world intellectuals share this group's defining unwillingness to condemn crimes that can't be blamed on the West.

The law should restrict itself to punishing speech that directly provokes crime – incitement to murder, incitement to violence or incitement to arson. It should not punish incitement to hatred, because it is not a crime to hate people, any more than it is to envy them or to lust after them.

They have a very low rate for attempted murder and a high rate for successfully concluded murder. It seems that when a French person sets out to kill someone, they make a good job of it.

Colonialism's true crime was to turn the great Asiatic peoples into the outskirts of the West.

An ethics that does not command us to renounce is a crime against the dignity to which we should aspire and against the happiness which we can obtain.

Having promulgated the dogma of original innocence, liberalism concludes that the man guilty of the crime is not the envious murderer but the victim who aroused his envy.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

Can you imagine a world without men? There'd be no crime, and lots of fat happy women.

In the 1960's, Labour had gained some power, or at least respectability. Spokesmen for the working class - but of course not necessarily coming from that class or belonging there except through ideology - were upset by the exposed inequalities and abuses disguised as treatment. It did not exactly strengthen the credibility of these measures that most receivers of this type of treatment for crime turned out to belong to just those classes supposed to be in political power.

Perhaps a woman has a different kind of measuring stick. For when it might be acceptable, or even necessary, to commit a murder.

Three hours later, she was sitting across from the local sheriff, Jim Peabody, whose face looked like the last piece of jerky in the jar.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.