Violent Crimes Quotes - Page 2

• I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

  Rob Zombie

  Drama, Kind, Crime

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• Studies show that people who abuse animals are far more likely to engage in interpersonal violence. Violent crime rates tend to be higher in areas where slaughterhouses are related, even when controlling for other variables.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Animal, People, Abuse

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• I just don't understand, if they see numbers [of CEO salaries]that represent people, how they can somehow skirt around that and morally justify taking or ruining those lives and leaving them with nothing. That, to me, is violent crime. It's certainly more violent than selling grams of pot to other adults.

  Eddie Vedder

  Numbers, People, Leaving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.

  Werner Herzog

  Fascination, Devastation, Crime

  "Werner Herzog's Abyss Stares Back". Interview with Leah Carroll, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 10, 2011.

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• In 1962 and 1963, there were two abominable decisions out of the Supreme Court, and that was taking prayer out of school, and taking bible reading out of school. But you know, if you look at the statistics, two very critical things happened after that date. Number one: teen pregnancy skyrocketed. Number two: violent crime skyrocketed.

  Rafael Cruz

  Prayer, Reading, Pregnancy

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you're going to be punished no matter what for the 'sin' of being female. Battering is the most commonly committed violent crime in the United States. That's a man beating a woman. Globally, half of all women will experience life-threatening violence from a man. Half. That's more hatred than I can comprehend. Right now, that battlefield is such a slaughter that we can't even collect our wounded.

  Lierre Keith

  Men, Hatred, United States

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• 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.

  Robert Mueller

  Years, Law, Numbers

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• If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, "Naw, it's much more dangerous," despite the fact that violent crime has dropped precipitously.

  Barack Obama

  Average, Facts, Crime

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Years, Criminals, Death Penalty

  Dinesh D'Souza (2009). “Letters to a Young Conservative”, p.127, Basic Books

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• We've directed the creation of a task force for reducing violent crime in America, including the horrendous situation - take a look at Chicago and others - taking place right now in our inner cities.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, America, Chicago

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime.

  Michelle Alexander

  People, Assuming, Dramatic

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Defenders of the system will counter by saying this drug war has been aimed at violent crime. But that is not the case. The overwhelming majority of people arrested in the drug war have been arrested for relatively minor, non-violent drug offenses.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, People, Drug

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.

  David Eagleman

  Two, Eight, Crime

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.167, Vintage

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• 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.

  Thomas Menino

  Fighting, Boston, Cities

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• I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.

  Ric Keller

  Strong, Children, Safety

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• The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even survive violent crime is the most neglected area of household management.

  John Longenecker

  Average, Roots, Unemployment

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• Multiple studies, including from the Justice Department, have shown that the guns used in homicides, including the killing of police officers, overwhelmingly tend to be small-caliber handguns. Moreover, gun ownership has increased over the past 20 years — the same period in which both the violent crime rate and the killing of police officers have been in decline.

  Radley Balko

  Gun, Past, Years

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• I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Community, Half

  "Clinton And Trump Clash In Tense First Presidential Debate". www.npr.org. September 26, 2016.

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• We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Country, Order, Office

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• Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%... While support for strict gun-control laws usually has been strongest in large cities, where crime rates are highest, that's precisely where right-to-carry laws have produced the largest drops in violent crimes.

  John R. Lott Jr.

  Gun, Law, Cities

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• Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

  Rob Reiner

  Jail, Childhood, Fatherhood

  "Star Power Fuels Push For Prop. 10 / `Rob Reiner Initiative' has steep cigarette tax" by Sabin Russell, www.sfgate.com. October 22, 1998.

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• There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target of a violent crime with lethal force. This is not a sense of power, it is now the experience of escaping from a sense of powerlessness.

  John Longenecker

  Gun, Escaping, Feelings

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• In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Stupid, Independent, Thinking

  "What good is IQ?" by Eric S. Raymond, esr.ibiblio.org. November 17, 2003.

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• I have a letter from a police inspector, retired after some 30 years in rural Derbyshire, alerting me to the potential impact of a total ban on hunting on relationships between the police and the community in rural areas - a particularly significant consideration in current circumstances. Is it, I ask myself, sensible to divert valuable police time to enforce a ban on hunting when they are under so much pressure from violent crime?

  Hazel Byford, Baroness Byford

  Hunting, Impact, Years

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• Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

  Cliff Stearns

  Home, College, Income

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