Crime Quote by Barry Glassner

“This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense…

— William Landay

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

— Bill James

There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up." But only fools believe that. It's…

— Josh Marshall

I used to deal with high-profile criminal cases that were covered extensively in the media, and one of the things I quickly appreciated was…

— Robert Rinder

“During voir dire, the interviews for jury selection, each person is asked under oath about their experience with the criminal justice system, as defendant…

— Edward Conlon

“Police throughout the United States have been caught fabricating, planting, and manipulating evidence to obtain convictions where cases would otherwise be very weak. Some…

— Dale Carpenter

From a victim's point of view, our justice system is hardly fit for purpose. No doubt individual failings by police and prosecutors provide part…

— Keir Starmer

The prosecution makes all the important decisions: what's charged, how much is charged, whether you can get a decent offer. Every defendant becomes an…

— Lynne Stewart

“Almost all crime depends on the acquiescence of the victim. If the victim refuses his assigned role, the criminal is placed at a disadvantage…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The best crime reporters don't mind charging in - but they also know how to do it as decent human beings.

— Gillian Flynn

“Those who have been swept within the criminal justice system know that the way the system actually works bears little resemblance to what happens…

— Michelle Alexander