Quotes About Crime

Police and security guards play an important role in stopping crime, but there uniforms put them at a disadvantage in these terrorist-type attacks. Knowing that the officer is the only person with a gun makes things quite simple for attackers. They need only kill him first. It is the equivalent of wearing a neon sign saying "shoot me first.

Americans use guns defensively about 2 million times a year — about 5 times more frequently than guns are used to commit crimes.

In real life, crime guns are very rarely left at the scene of incidents, and the only exceptions occur when criminals have been seriously injured or killed.

Also, crime guns are very rarely registered. In the exceedingly rare instances that they are, they aren't registered to the person who committed the crime. That's why police in such diverse places as Chicago, Hawaii, DC, Pennsylvania, and Canada can't point to any crimes that have been solved as a result of registration.

In 2014, the worst 2 percent of counties accounted for 52 percent of the murders. Five percent of counties accounted for 68 percent of the murders.

The claim that guns are rarely used in self-defense comes from only counting defensive actions that result in the death of the attacker. But by any measure, only a fraction of one percent of defensive gun uses result in the criminal attacker being killed or wounded. In 95% of the cases, merely brandishing a firearm is enough to fend off an attacker.

My people have a saying that every civilization is founded in a terrible crime.

I wondered if it had eaten a suspect. If I had, I hoped the suspect deserved it. It seemed like a good cop, as such things went, and I'd hate to think less of it.

After all, not even mobsters fixed their kitchen sinks with handguns. They could blow their drains out.

One has to commit a painting,' said Degas, 'the way one commits a crime.

No one can be the judge of another until he recognizes that he himself is as guilty for the crime as the one who committed it—and maybe more so.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Maitland had associates who were known to be involved in organized crime in Briarstone and London. He'd been brought in for questioning on several occasions for different reasons; each time he'd given a "no comment" interview, or one where he stuck to one-word answers,

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

I shuddered at the idea of this incarnate fiend, whose soul is black with shocking crimes, mingling free and unobserved amongst the harmless crowds, meditating perhaps a new and more fearful cycle of infamies. I tell you, sir, that an awful being stalks through the streets, a being before whom the sunlight itself should blacken, and the summer air grow chill and dank.

En las nueve mil leguas que tiene de perímetro el mundo, no hay un solo lugar donde las supuestas órdenes de algún dios no hayan consagrado algún crimen.

Como dice el camarada Stalin, donde hay un hombre puede haber delito.

El título es Limpia, mata y da esplendor: una historia de crímenes con el fantasma de Cervantes, que vagaría por nuestro edificio haciéndose visible sólo a los conserjes.

Lo ven? Él mismo confiesa.¿Qué esperamos para apalearlos? ?¡Alto! Si ha habido un crimen no va a borrarse con otro crimen.

Many of the sisters were Black and poor and from D.C., where every crime is a violation of a federal statute. They were beautiful sisters, serving outrageous sentences for minor offenses.

It turned out that he was a specialist in paleontology and had spent a lot of time studying rocks. He tried to claim that his expertise at examining rocks made him able to identify people. Under cross-examination, all his carefully constructed "expertise" turned into a pile of rocks, and this new technical breakthrough in crime fighting proved to be nothing but a fraud.

We had to fill in forms which asked us whether we had ever been convicted of any crime. I hesitated about this. The NCO in charge, seeing me hesitate, explained kindly:'You write "No" in that line'.

The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.

The people who hired me have been shot. The people who shot them have been shot.