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Quotes About Crime

The final Brexit deal must ensure there is no diminution in Britain's national security or ability to tackle cross-border crime.
~ Keir Starmer
Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.
~ Francis Maude
'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see anything post that happening without that.
~ Ben Mendelsohn
I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.
~ Joe Klein
One of the most popular scams is what they call account takeover. You write me a check, and I simply go online to a check-printing service and order 200 checks with your account information.
~ Frank Abagnale
Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil.
~ Pope Francis
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
~ George Henry Lewes
I've come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they live in.
~ Megan Abbott
People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
~ Calvin Klein
As an early advocate for neighborhood policing, I've been heartened to see the tangible impact of police officers spending less time in their station houses and more time on our street corners, developing collaborative relationships with residents and businesses that help us fight and deter crime.
~ Eric Adams
I like my murders to start at the beginning with the corpse and go on to the end with the conviction. But when you start in the middle with the confession—well, all I can say is, that it's all wrong!
~ Richard Hull
Nothing nice happens to murdered women.
~ Richard Kadrey
The third time you commit murder, you change into that extra shirt you brought along, the one that's not covered in blood, and you go out for a drink.
~ Richard Kadrey
He may have been young, but he was from Jefferson. He had already learned that, many times, sexual predators were also quite clumsy,
~ Richard Montanari
the possibility of an evil or alien idea coming to inhabit a person, misleading him, perverting him ontologically, driving him to crime or insanity. . .The person born of the idea may be distorted and even destroyed by it.
~ Richard Pevear
In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
~ Richard Power
The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.
~ Richard Rohr
He a user?" Samson nodded. And a pusher. But we never proved it. Got him for possession, that's all. He worked the black cigar from one side of his wide mouth to the other
~ Richard S. Prather
He has passed beyond the veil," I said. "He was shot in the head last night." This time I got a reaction. "Shot?" She caught herself and frowned at me. "What's your name? And just what do you want?" "Shell Scott. I'm a private detective, and I want to know all you can tell me about George Stone and Virginia Waring." "Out you go, boy.
~ Richard S. Prather
If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning." Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said.
~ Richard Stark
When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.
~ Richard Stark
When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.
~ Richard Stark
You can steal in this country, you can rape and murder, you can bribe public officials, you can pollute the morals of the young, you can burn your place of business down for the insurance money, you can do almost anything you want, and if you act with just a little caution and common sense you'll never even be indicted. But if you don't pay your income tax, Grofield, you will go to jail.
~ Richard Stark
She's dead. So is your fat pansy. You can be dead, too, if you want.
~ Richard Stark