Quotes About Crime

Crime does pay, only not for the criminals. You're probably wondering how I can afford these palatial digs. Well, I'll let you in on the secret. About fifteen years ago, the state decided to contract out indigent defense and I was firstest with the mostest.

Allison was the obvious suspect if Alex was innocent, but she had to have had a male accomplice, because Meredith had been kidnapped and brutalized by a man. Jeff had made a case for Jacob Heller. At a minimum, it looked like he and Allison were lovers.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

Given the devastation that crime can visit on families and communities, I will err on being a little too tough on crime than being too soft on crime.

One of the things that I love about crime novels is that you can turn the volume all the way up. If I can make somebody blow their subway stop, I win.

Once upon a time there was a physicality to the business of investigating a serious crime. There were objects, pieces of paper, even good old-fashioned fingerprints. Today it's different. Because all of us are routinely and voluntarily giving the intimate details of our lives to all kinds of people whether we realize it or not.

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. I was not interested in reading 'The Glass Key' or 'The Maltese Falcon' - stuff that was 40 or 50 years old.

Those who voted for Vicente Fox endorsed his call for change - better economic management, less crime, and less corruption - and they expect him to deliver.

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.

I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

I'm the great-great-grandson of a sheep stealer.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan.

I watch too many crime shows - it's ridiculous.

If I was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.

A shootout is a shootout. You go in and get the bad guys.

Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.

What do you want me to do, rob a bank?

I've been thinking about a bank robbery my whole life.

I rob banks for a living, what do you do?

Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.

'Batman' is pretty much real world-centric.

only between 5 percent and 20 percent of forcible rapes in the United States are reported to the police; a paltry 0.4 percent to 5.4 percent of rapes are ever prosecuted; and just 0.2 percent to 2.8 percent of forcible rapes culminate in a conviction that includes any time in jail for the assailant. Here's another way to think about these numbers: When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime. —