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The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusua...

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I'm here to tell niggas it ain't all swell.There's Heaven then there's Hell niggasOne day your cruis...

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If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

In that hothouse atmosphere, criminal records bloomed like orchids all around us.

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Jean-Dominique BaubyThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly

All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.

Prisons don't rehabilitate they don't punish they don't protect so what the hell do they do?

Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lo...

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I told Seven the Bartender that true love is felonious."Not if they're over eighteen," he said, shut...

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Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it...

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It's natural for a man to defend what's dear to him: his own life, his home, his family. But in orde...

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Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere...

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It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay s...

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John D. MacDonaldThe Lonely Silver Rain

We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for ...

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The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier ...

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In many ways the effect of the crash on embezzlement was more significant than on suicide. To the ec...

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Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what...

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Statistically, the odds that any given rape was committed by a serial offender are around 90 percent...

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Jon KrakauerMissoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relat...

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Jon KrakauerUnder the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going throu...

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Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the...

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There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is n...

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The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regime...

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Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold t...

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The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

Do it once and do it right and do it quickly

What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hid...

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A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally...

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Lysander SpoonerNo Treason: The Constitution of No Authority

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

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Marcel ProustThe Guermantes Way

It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor's wife should cut them all out and p...

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There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Atheism is aristocratic the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes...

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man ...

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Maya AngelouI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union:Nine months Landsman's bee...

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It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I do...

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Curiously, growing Papaver somniferum in America is legal—unless, that is, it is done in the knowled...

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Michael PollanThe Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

The public execution did not re-establish justice; it reactivated power. In the seventeenth century,...

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The fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not...

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Michel FoucaultDiscipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted ...

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Michel FoucaultDiscipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under...

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Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he c...

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That's how it's always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute...

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    "You ever been arrested before?"    "No sir. This is my first time."    "The first time this wee...

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When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an ou...

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Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live...

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Nelson MandelaLong Walk to Freedom

Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum...

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As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if the...

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The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because...

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Noam ChomskyImperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

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Noam ChomskyImperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentenc...

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Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which ...

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Som...

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If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagi...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

None of these apparent sightings interested Hawksmoor, since it was quite usual for members of the p...

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Be informed, also, that this good and savoury Parish is the home of Hectors, Trapanners, Biters who ...

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I am the scourge of God

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Peter AckroydThe Trial of Elizabeth Cree

Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than inve...

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Peter F. HamiltonGreat North Road

This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates h...

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Philip RothThe Anatomy Lesson

Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia d...

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It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all ...

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Primo LeviIf This Is a Man / The Truce

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet.

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

It's goddamned funny in this police racket how an old woman can look out of a window and see a guy r...

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He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden countr...

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Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Ma...

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So you shoot people," she said quietly. "You're a killer.""Me? How?""The papers and the police fixed...

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I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very g...

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It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, n...

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When I got home I mixed a stiff one and stood by the open window in the living room and sipped it an...

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It's odd to imagine, of course: you pass a car on a lonely rural highway; you sit beside a man in a ...

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It was as if they'd discovered something that had once been there but had gotten hidden or misunders...

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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness.

Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.

there used to be, dirtside, a legal defenses called "diminished capacity" and "not guilty by reason ...

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Robert A. HeinleinThe Cat Who Walks Through Walls

How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to ...

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Robert A. HeinleinThe Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Getting even was the basis of many primate semantic confusions, such as"expropriating the expropriat...

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I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professio...

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Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia get...

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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature...

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A glass poured to air for the one who sits with us unseen; the patron and protector, the Crooked War...

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Scott LynchThe Lies of Locke Lamora

I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons a...

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Shirley JacksonJust an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons a...

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Shirley JacksonJust an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons a...

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons a...

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt...

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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justi...

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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil...

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There was nothing … and nothing … and then the car bumped up again. There was a muffled pop, the sou...

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