Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.
I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.
The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.
I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of the reasons I became a crime writer.
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.
You do not have to be convicted or even charged of a crime to be able to demonstrate that you've violated a personal conduct policy, and reflect poorly not only on themselves, but all of their teammates, every NFL player in the league, and everyone associated with the NFL.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.
I'm not an investigative journalist; I don't track crime or police blotters.
Crime does not pay as well as politics.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
Organized crime and rogue nation states and terrorists are very much focused on the Internet of things. The challenge that goes with connectivity is always security. The bad guys go wherever the return is, and now it's more lucrative for bad guys to focus on cybercrime than traditional crime.
I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.
Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.
Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.
Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.
We need to take lessons learned from fighting terrorism and apply them to cyber crime.
There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.
I always speak so highly of my mom because she's my partner in crime, and none of this would be possible without her love and support. Always have to make time for Mom.
The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.
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.
Either we need to redefine what probable cause means and say that police are not subject to it, or we arrest officers right away just as we would with any other person accused of committing a crime. Either we write new laws or enforce existing ones; we cannot have it both ways.
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
It's not a crime to get drunk.
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
The question is, does the punishment fit the crime? So we're not saying that we shouldn't punish people. We're not talking about a society that tolerates lawlessness. We should be very tough on people who are perpetuating violent crimes, for example. But we should make sure that it's tailored and not arbitrary.
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.
Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
Many low-income people in the U.S.A. charged with a crime opt to plead guilty to a lesser offence because they cannot afford to go to trial.
