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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

I don’t know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don’t know any criminals.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

I followed him at the time and thought he was hysterical. He was the first serial killer, a new kettle of fish, because we didn’t have the detection techniques in those days.

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.