Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cesare Beccaria

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Chris Christie

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

There is no level of crime that is so bad... that rights no longer exist.

Until there is some direct thing done to prevent crime before it happens, it is going to keep happening. If a curfew can prevent crime before it happens, so be it.

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

William Shakespeare

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

Adlai E. Stevenson

This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.

We'll see what kind of victim it was, if it was a crime of opportunity or if someone who went out to lure a child.

We are also providing additional, enhanced services for gun crime victims and witnesses involved in these lengthy and large gun-crime prosecutions,

Women mystery writers took a genre that before that had been exclusively male and transformed it. The tradition of the male private eye goes all the way back in literature to the lone man on the edge of society with a moral conscience, saving people's lives. In 1977 Marcia Muller wrote the first female sleuth who was a hard-core professional crime solver.

Unfortunately in tourism, perception is reality. Because if a tourist or visitor perceives it unsafe they are not going to come. So we've got to deal with both. I think the reality is we have a crime problem and we have to deal with it.

Louis Stokes

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.

What he represents is that part of Giuliani's legacy that has become permanent, on crime and welfare,

Hannah More

Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)

Exculpatory evidence would tend to support an inference that the defendant is not guilty of the crime that is charged,

The investigation is still ongoing. At this point in time there is no indication a crime even occurred.

It's not always that crimes turn out this way and not everyone reacts this way.

Initially there will be this wave of good feeling. If it drags on, there are going to be some crimes and other things that come with new residents.

I'm not an expert at that. I wish I hadn't sold ? I don't know whether a crime was committed.

I just can't say whether it's the same crimes, or just one. It's all unclear.

I'm 61-years old. I suffered prejudice in this town for his crimes all my life, and I'm struggling to put food on the table. If he passed away right now, we're unprepared.

E. B. White

I'm sure this is just the starting point. We want to work from the ground up and get people thinking about crime prevention.

In five years, federal officials say people will be more likely to be a victim of this crime than not.

Valerie Plame

not an important part of whether this is a crime or not.

Not every anti-Semitic incident is a hate crime that can be prosecuted. Not every slur or statement is actually illegal or a crime. What we document are incidents, reports that people give to us that we research and we corroborate.

It was a crime of opportunity. One of the females entered the office, there was money that had been sitting out, she took the money and the two females left the store,

John Long

I turned (the crime scene) all over to the sheriff's department, which is the normal routine,

It will be like giving the household seal of approval. What is currently a crime will be transformed into medical treatment,

George Farquhar

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Jalal Talabani

What happened during dictatorship must not happen again, and we should do whatever it takes to prevent any of the crimes that happened before from happening again.

Douglas William Jerrold

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

Donald Ray Pollock

Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life.

Investigators would want to protect the future of the investigations. I mean, you never know how much disclosure would actually prejudice tracking down other criminals, or further investigations.