Rural Crime Quotes

When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder.

My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don't have street crime. It's strictly between people who know each other. It really isn't indiscriminate; it's kind of between themselves.

One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside.

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

In isolated or country places no man's life is safe.

They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.

I think that the security in the cities is a lot better, but I think that outside the cities the peasants have no security, have no protection of the justice, so that I think is something we have to address.