Crime Quote by Edward Humes

““Locking everyone up is not the solution,' she sighs, staring into a cup of coffee gone cold as The Box at Juvenile Hall. 'It's just the symptom of the problem. It's the proof that we're doing something wrong.””

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“from a child in danger to a dangerous child”

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“we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to…

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“Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across…

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“the fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask - What's the best way to deal with this individual kid? - is often lost…

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“There are, in short, a multitude of ways for trash to escape and plastic to go missing. But there is only one ultimate end…

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“Take a trip in my mind see all that I've seen, and you'd be called a beast, not a human being... Fuck it, cause…

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“(By contrast, 15 percent of Pennsylvania is publicly owned lands, as is 44 percent of California, 68 percent of Idaho, and more than 90 percent of Alaska.) In”

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“Officially, he was no longer a victim, he was a criminal”

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