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Crime Quotes


"In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement."


"Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime."


"Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all."


"Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us."


"The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless."


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


"After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor."


"There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it."


"To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked."


"I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale."


"White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America."


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


"We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated."


"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace."


"The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair."


"I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is."


"Every sin is the result of a collaboration."


"In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great."


"It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime."


"Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent."


"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime."


"I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom."


"We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison."


"Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."


"Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens."


"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens."


"However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today."


"Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent."
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