Quotes About Crime

In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared.

Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.

I've read a thousand private-eye novels.

It didn't matter, because he was an employee of a criminal enterprise and I was an FBI consultant and, oh yeah, technically kidnapped and probably in the throes of some kind of Stockholm syndrome.

Crimes often come in pairs.

We treat the crime capital of the United States as if it was a second Disneyland, smelling like roses, a great place to take the family or hold a convention.

Ross Macdonald

You're taking this pretty seriously," I said. "Why don't you go one step further and take it to the police?" "Trying to talk yourself out of a job?" "Yes.

The modern state offers a pretended ministry of service as a means to exercising a pagan dominion, and the result is a vulture society of hatred, crime, and exploitation.

Jodi Byrd writes: "The story of the new world is horror, the story of America a crime." It is necessary, she argues, to start with the origin of the United States as a settler-state and its explicit intention to occupy the continent. These origins contain the historical seeds of genocide. Any true history of the United States must focus on what has happened to (and with) Indigenous peoples—and what still happens.

When people with money thief and build big house with the money nobody can touch them; when poor people thief a pound of beef people throw their hands in the air and shout for he to go to prison.

Many people mistakenly believe that rape is a sexually motivated act. In fact, a rapist doesn't commit the crime because he is "horny" or because his wife cheated on him, although he may use those factors as excuses. The rapist uses sex as a tool of aggression. The sexual assault is an assertion of power or an expression of anger, or it may be a combination of the two. In any event, sexual assault primarily serves nonsexual needs.

When I have the opportunity to interview one of these men, I always ask if the death penalty would have deterred him from his crime. Without exception, he'll say no. I asked one rapist why, and he responded by asking me a series of questions. Had I ever skipped school? Yes. Did I know in advance that I would be punished if caught? Yes. Then why did I do it? Because I didn't think I would be caught, I said. There you go, he said.

Winston Churchill wrote: "There is no doubt that this persecution of the Jews in Hungary and their expulsion from enemy territory is probably the biggest and most horrible crime ever committed in the whole history of the world and it has been done by scientific machinery by nominally civilized men in the name of a great State and one of the leading races in Europe.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

Is the perfect murder ever possible?

Christie, in particular, was a great one for the locked room mystery. The victim retires to his room, the door is locked from within, nothing has been forced open and yet the person has been shot or stabbed or clubbed to death. How did this happen? The question has been answered in various ingenious ways, usually involving a brilliant detective who can pick out clues the way you and I never could.

It's like a crime is an act that when you've committed one the act is over and you haven't changed inside. But when you commit a sin it's like you create a condition that you have to live in.

You have fallen badly, señor gringo. Bribery is a very serious crime in this country. You will have to pay.

Alcohol: Alcohol makes you more susceptible to injuries, it's a squandering of tax payer dollars and resources, it causes crashes and fatalities, it increases crime rates, it impairs your mind and it's harmful to your health.

Human rights: The only human rights any person should ever have is the rights that are just, morally right. For example the freedom of speech, the freedom of expression, the freedom of the press. Those are just a few rights every one should have, however even these rights need to be used in just ways. People can't run around doing whatever they want just because they have freedom, otherwise you get violence, crime, sin, injustice, tragedy, suffering, death and Hell.

You don't want to be too hard or too easy, you don't want to be wrong when it comes to crime, you want to be just, morally right.