No place is unpoliceable; no crime is immune to better enforcement efforts.
William Bratton
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Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.
Polly Toynbee
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By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.
Gary Johnson
BetterCountryPlaceCrimeResources
Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow White' videos should probably do time if they have priors, especially serious priors. But the punishment has to fit the crime, and the standard has to be the same for everyone.
Matt Taibbi
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Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Vittorio Alfieri
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Apostasy is a grave crime in Islam and punishable by death in the eyes of members of al Qaeda.
Peter Bergen
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The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.
Foxy Brown
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My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion.
Ann Cleeves
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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged.
Paul Watson
HurtNobodyCrimePropertyHere
When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
Adam Cohen
GovernmentPeopleLongCrimePlaces
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
Jed S. Rakoff
ThinkCommon SenseSayCrimeSense
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
NatureManCrimeWillHimWicked
For me, I really like the human drama embedded in a crime story, and I like the way European films do that.
Scott Frank
MeStoryDramaCrimeWayHuman
If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
Edgar Wright
CarYouCrimeLondonWayOut
As soon as I got to L.A., there was this big crime where these guys tunnelled underneath a bank on a three-day weekend and went right up to the vault and emptied everything out.
Michael Connelly
WeekendCrimeRightEverythingOut
Like so many other bored teens, I was a bored teen with a hobby. The only difference was mine was obsessing about crime.
Sarah Weinman
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Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
Thomas Francis Meagher
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I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's time to see if I can do this.' I basically flipped a coin to see if I was going to write science fiction or if I was going to do a crime novel. The coin toss went to science fiction.
John Scalzi
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White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
Sara Paretsky
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I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.
Noah Baumbach
GoodBurgerYouCrimeOnlyLike
Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.
Sophie Hannah
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I am one of the first political leaders officially declaring that anti-Semitism is a crime. I expect an official declaration that Islamophobia is a crime against humanity as well.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.
Marion Barry
YouWashingtonCrimeOutTakeLow
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