Pastoral Resources

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

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

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.

There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

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

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

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.

But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

If a war be undertaken... before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.