Quotes About Crime

The police, at their best, do three things; they prevent crime, they respond to crime, and they solve crime. In all three of those buckets, they need the trust of the community to do it, so I believe that if we restore the trust that we will change the way police are experiencing communities and ways that will preserve life and make everyone safer.

We Montanans take pride in our low crime rate and believe honest people can disagree without being disagreeable. Maybe extremist groups believe they can find a home in Montana because of our easygoing ways.

We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from the crime and to the drugs and the kidnappings and the extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't feel safe in their community. It's wrong! It's wrong!

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

Criminals take advantage of weak laws, like giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

A world without law and order is a very scary place.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

My first book deal was for two Mark Genevich novels. I hadn't planned on writing a second Genevich novel, but I was contracted to do so, and so there I was being introduced as a crime writer.

If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect.

In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters three and 11.

A lot of the problems we have in our criminal-justice system, you know, the problem of over-incarceration, the problem of prosecutorial abuse, the problem of just this sort of mass crop of people, of plea bargains, they all have to do with the system being overloaded. If crime was lower, many of the problems would go away.

In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret Services was and is, quite rightly, a state secret. To divulge it is a crime. The Services may choose to leak a name when it pleases them.

There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.

Traditionally in crime fiction, women exist as a bedroom convenience or to screw up in order that the plot may progress. I wanted no part of that.

In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself as writing crime novels. I like fairly strong narratives, but it's a way of getting a plot moving.

'Law & Order' has the same plot every single episode.

When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong autobiographical elements in each.

I've seen people get robbed, seen people get shot with my own eyes, for pointless petty crimes.

The only way to clean up Chicago is to get rid of Capone.

White collar crime must be taken as seriously as any other crime.