Street Crime Quotes

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

I will not allow continued planned street violence between rival factions to take place on the streets of Portland.

In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.

The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the goblins do not know who is armed and who is not, their professional enthusiasm declines. Now that Britain has made sure (insofar as any law can so insure) that everybody is disarmed, the streets arem given back to the bad kid with the baseball bat. We hope they are satisfied.

I lost a lot of homeboys growing up, a lot of family, at early ages.

I've been through all the bad parts of the streets.

I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of people - law-abiding citizens use if for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets.

In Brazil, I walked around with a lot of security. Fans were threatening to fight me.

Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.

It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty and deprivation in our own country. Try standing unarmed on a street corner in Compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last.

The Moroccan scum in Holland... once again not all are scum... but there is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who make the streets unsafe, mostly young people... and that should change.

New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

I was walking down the street, and I found a man's hand in my pocket. I asked, "What do you want?" "A match" "Why didn't you ask me?" "I don't talk to strangers."

New Orleans is New Orleans. It's a great city and fun and great food. It's one of those cities that when you are working hard hours like we work, you have to do as much as possible to stay out of trouble. Not much of a problem for me, but in New Orleans, trouble tries so much to find you.

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

We are never going to lick this problem of the drug traffic until we get the addicts off the streets of this country. They have got to be taken off the streets

Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime.

Betting shops have a big impact on encouraging on-street drinking and can often become a centre for disorder and anti-social behaviour.

I once asked a policeman how far it was to the subway. he said, "I don't know, no one has ever made it".

The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.

You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

Get your pockets dug from all your chemical bank ends caught him at the red light - on Putman Avenue and Franklin