So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But there’s something irreparable as well: The crime forever compromises both love and the possibility of loving. I killed a man, and… — Kamel Daoud Copy Share Image
Get your hand off me,” I exclaimed, voice loud with misplaced anger as I yanked away from his grip. “I’m a professional,… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I think the "crime novel" has replaced the sociological novel of the 1930s. I think the progenitor of that tradition is James… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“I was in a prison of my own making for so long. Don't send me back there, please? I have nothing, and… — Donna Galanti Copy Share Image
“People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove… — David Shuster Copy Share Image
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“The man breathed deeply with his eyes shut and his speech trailed off. Nick approached the patient with the syringe in hand,… — Jackie Sonnenberg Copy Share Image
The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari Graynor from… — Candice Accola Copy Share Image
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local… — James Patrick Kelly Copy Share Image
“The Roar of the engine penetrated through Bertram's Hotel from the street outside. Colonel Luscombe perceived that Ladislaus Malinowski was one of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
On balance, the use of encryption, just like the use of good locks on doors, has the net effect of preventing a… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest? — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
I've got a reputation for doing a certain type of film: lads' movies that glamorise violence. The more my reputation as a… — Nick Love Copy Share Image
Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As the father of six children, I want to know that when my wife or I drop our kids off at school… — Mike Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known… — Alan Mollohan Copy Share Image
As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes,… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
We've directed the creation of a task force for reducing violent crime in America, including the horrendous situation - take a look… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“And there above all of these shops hung a blood soaked sign: a red hand, the hand of a child that was… — Georges Limbour Copy Share Image
Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people. — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
Next time we see you, you’ll be on trial for some ingenious crime!” Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. “Just as… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and… — Davi Kopenawa Yanomami Copy Share Image