Have you ever noticed how all newspaper composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?
Crime Quotes
If hen-stealing prevail to a plainly unendurable extent, will you station police-officers on every hen-roost; and keep them watching and cruising incessantly to and fro over the parish, in the unwholesome dark, at enormous expense, with almost no effect? Or will you not try rather to discover where the fox’s den is, and kill the […]
There was a widely held but unprofessed belief in Mississippi that a good sherrif must be a little crooked to insure law and order. Whiskey whoring and gambling were simply facts of life, and a good sherrif must be knowledgeable in these affairs to properly regulate them and protect the christians. Those vices could not […]
Poverty is the mother of crime.
“There’s the King’s Messenger. He’s in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesn’t begin until next Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all” – “Suppose he never commits the crime?” said Alice. “That would be all the better, wouldn’t it?” the Queen said.
Yes, as through this world I’ve wandered I’ve seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Murder will out, this my conclusion.
We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
