Quotes About Crime

Police can only act on intelligence.

While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.

'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were based on real cases.

Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option.

I don't know if it's true or not that folks are less likely to tell police when they see things.

Years ago, when my attempts at a writing career came to a complete stand-still, I applied to the Los Angeles Police Department. This might seem odd for a liberal woman who once went to UC Santa Cruz, but I've always had a powerful fascination with crime and serious interest in finding different ways to contend with it.

If every person charged with a crime was allowed to claim money from the authorities when their case was dropped, our police would end up spending all their time defending claims for compensation.

Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.

Senior politicians and police officers as well as their children get away with murder and run extortion rackets. It is all accepted with some anger and a shrug.

God, I've played a lot of policeman.

Invest more in policing, not less.

There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

I am one of the first political leaders officially declaring that anti-Semitism is a crime. I expect an official declaration that Islamophobia is a crime against humanity as well.

Our communities deserve a just response to years of disinvestment in our communities that have led to poor health outcomes and crime.

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.

Writing books that people want to read is helpful - my most successful book is my only police procedural, a very popular subgenre of the very popular crime fiction genre.

Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.

We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of our population needs to be behind bars.

Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.

'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.

Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.