Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it’s used in a crime. – Michael D. Barnes
It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense. – Fidel Castro
Abandoned homes become magnets for vandalism and crime. They drag down the property values of neighboring homes. – Eric Schneiderman
When an accident or a crime happens, there’s a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close. – Dan Gilroy
I know you shouldn’t spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn’t make enormous demands on one’s intellect. – Donna Leon
What Mexico City cannot do and my country cannot do is to allow us to be intimidated, the authorities to be intimidated, by organized crime. – Enrique Pena Nieto
Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill – spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society’s scars. – Carrie P. Meek
Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime. – Matt Taibbi
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. – Frederick Soddy
I love so many different genres. I love crime films – and unusual coming-of-age pieces. – Geoffrey S. Fletcher
The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator. – Christopher Fowler
The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there. – Geoffrey S. Fletcher
I think if you look back at some of the stuff that we broadly label as the crime ‘ouvre,’ there are certainly elements of the supernatural at work. – Greg Rucka
If we were really tough on crime, we’d do more to stop it from happening in the first place. – Carrie P. Meek
Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn’t harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we’re dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult. – Catherine Crier
I’m going to be 58, and I’m a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill. – Patty Duke
We’ve got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well. – Carrie P. Meek