Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement.

Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city.

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.

We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.