Andre Braugher Quotes

Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.

We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.

My approach to the story... is if you can get into a criminal's mind and understand how it works and understand how crime is committed, you can help prevent it from happening to someone else.

Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.

Like so many other bored teens, I was a bored teen with a hobby. The only difference was mine was obsessing about crime.

Learning about crime in great detail forces us to ask ourselves how it happened, how the victims and perpetrators got to that point, how the law works, how the police force functions.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.

I'm interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes.

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

When 'The Washington Post' ran the first national story about FBI profiling in 1984, no one outside of law enforcement recognized the term.

Crime is a job and it's boring. It's also unpleasant.

'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fiction. So, there's no reason that there isn't another 10-hour true crime story that could be told in this region.

Evidence from mobile devices has provided critical help in solving crimes ranging from homicides to drug trafficking.

It takes a crook to catch those crooks.

Simply put, violent criminals break the law - any law - every day with impunity.

Criminals know that if they stay under certain thresholds, nobody is going to come after them.

In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.

The police should be focused on policing criminal activity, and that's sort of the beginning, the middle and the end of it for me.

I love the idea of getting into the mind of the criminal.

My novels are never directly based on a true crime incident, but I want to get the details right. I want to know how homicide detectives think, what a SWAT team might do to prepare.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.

You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys.