Quotes About Crime

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

My approach to the story... is if you can get into a criminal's mind and understand how it works and understand how crime is committed, you can help prevent it from happening to someone else.

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

I think it's a crime to prevent love from happening.

One the most efficient ways to combat gun violence is to prevent criminals from obtaining guns in the first place.

Crimes happen, but some are preventable.

Retailers have an important part to play in preventing knife crime - enforcing age restrictions and displaying knives safely is crucial.

By preventing the federal government from removing known criminal aliens, we allow our country to be a safe haven for criminals.

As in health, so in crime - prevention is better than cure.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

The crime and violence in the black community is a prime example of the damaging effect of broken families and single female-headed households.

I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

Bill Clinton presided over the largest increase in federal and state prison inmates of any president in American history.

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

It was very difficult when I was young because there are problems with violence, gangs, guns, drugs - a criminal life. I had friends that choose a criminal life. Some of them are in prison, and some of them are dead. They chose the bad way.

My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.

You're in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don't have any money, you can't get a job; what are you going to do? You're going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison.

Prison works.

How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we say, 'OK, well, prison hasn't worked, so we're not going to try that again.'

When I was a child, I had an intense fear of going to prison. I wasn't on the run or anything - my crimes were small and they were all against fashion. But I had nightmares about accidentally killing someone, or being falsely accused.