Jeff Cooper Quotes

It's very hard to be cut off in Glasgow because it's such a small city. You know, we have the highest rate of per-capita imprisonment, certainly in Britain, maybe in Europe. We have a very high murder rate here. So most people will know someone who's been to prison.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.

The United States homicide rate without guns is higher than most European country’s homicide rates including guns.

If you ignore the homicides, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.

Prison officers face enormous pressure. The levels of violence inside our prisons are too high.

States without the death penalty have had consistently lower murder rates. And national murder rates have declined steadily since 1992, despite fewer executions.

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.

Oh spare me, being stuck in your bedroom is not like prison. You don't have to worry about being gang-raped in your bedroom.

Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.

Russia spends enormous, senseless amounts of money on the army and the police. We have one of the top rankings in the world when it comes to the number of police officers - but when it comes to the number of murders, we are also right at the top.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets.

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

We want the clear facts to be reported that we, according to the FBI, have a lower violent crime rate than Atlanta, or Houston, or Dallas, or Miami or San Antonio. To some extent, the perception that's been created is much greater than the reality.

Defenders of the system will counter by saying this drug war has been aimed at violent crime. But that is not the case. The overwhelming majority of people arrested in the drug war have been arrested for relatively minor, non-violent drug offenses.

Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

And I never thought about how the lights don't go out, so you never really rest, in that way. I never really thought about the intensity of being watched, all the time. Those are some things that I didn't know about prison.

The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.