Quotes About Investigation

Criminal Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Police. They'll solve it." Reggie chuckled when he realized Sebastian was puzzled, if only momentarily. "That's the real name for Scotland Yard, which is actually the name of the street and the building where they are housed.

Look at the way the FBI had nailed General Petraeus when he was director of Central Intelligence, by focusing on the email account he was using with his lover.

A Fed, a local, and a consultant.

And so by carefully investigating what is here and now, we must seek for the things that can save us. We should flee, entirely, all the works of lawlessness; otherwise, they may overwhelm us. And we should hate the error of the present age, that we may be loved in the age to come. 2 We should not allow our souls to relax, thinking they can consort with sinners and the wicked; otherwise we may become like them.

have had a field day here.

You can't blame human nature, and there was nothing more human than curiosity.

Murder is blue

seem to be an ideal, but in fact he is the realist here. The only thing that can interrupt happiness is an untrue thought. It's like a cloud hiding the sun. When we investigate it, it dissolves. Wisdom is the art of cloudlessness.

ONCE EINSTEIN SAW the needle of a compass at the age of four, he always understood that there had to be "something behind things, something deeply hidden.

But there's something about sitting at someone else's desk that makes you feel like looking in the drawers. I resisted the impulse briefly. Then I decided what the hell. I was a private investigator. Poking my nose in where it didn't belong came with the territory.

Sheriff, are you suggestin' the victom was kidnapped? I'm only statin' that, at this time, we have no body, only nonvital body parts...

how many shots were left in the clip.

So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was unsure about her own interest in marriage. There must be one solid citizen who also had a spark of life, a sense of humor and adventure.

should interest you," says Thorpe. "The man who was killed in Vegas fought off his assailant at least long enough to give us a clue. Under his fingernails we took some scrapings, found tissue, and did a DNA profile. We were unable to match it to any known individual

It's much better to ask small questions than big ones.

Unless you have more information, however, it's hard to say what's causing what.

If you are willing to confront the obvious, you will end up asking a lot of questions that others don't.

The impulse to investigate can only be set free if you stop pretending to know answers that you don't. Because the incentives to pretend are so strong, this may require some bravery on your part.

The next time you run into a question that you can only pretend to answer, go ahead and say "I don't know"—and then follow up, certainly, with "but maybe I can find out." And work as hard as you can to do that.

Steven D. Levitt

Particular gift is the ability to ask such questions. For instance: If drug dealers make so much money, why do they still live with their mothers? Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What really caused crime rates to plunge during the past decade? Do real-estate agents have their clients' best interests at heart? Why do black parents give their children names that may hurt their career prospects? Do schoolteachers cheat to meet high-stakes testing.

If you are willing to confront the obvious, you will end up asking a lot of questions that others don't.

legal investigation. As Clinton noted, "My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful.

Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator." Stephanie Plum