#crime

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#committed #crimes #deplorable #derivative #greater

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#any #chance #crime #desperately #fight

Not failure, but low aim, is crime. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#crime #failure #low #low aim

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#crimes #cruel #differences #men #punishing

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#begin #crime #failure #greatly #line

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#cinema #coincide #conclude #crime #drop

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#came #caught #changed #could #crime

The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#authority #commit #crimes #criminal #criminal justice

There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour. ↗

— Theresa May

#behaviour #crime #inevitable #nothing

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers. ↗

— Theresa May

#crime #fighters #form #getting #officers