Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.
It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized 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.
Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department.
I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.
We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.