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I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it because I always want to talk about certain things in society.
This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society particularly blacks it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime drugs the whole bit.
In my view there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
There is one and only one thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely repressive justice.
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That for me would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves the only final sin is stupidity.
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.
They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.
Religion is a strange wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary whatever the punishment once a specific crime has appeared for the first time its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier a dangerous quality in the captain and a positive crime in the statesman.
About 25 years ago I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.
We can play politics or we can reduce crime.