Denise Mina Quotes

The United States makes up 5 percent of the world’s population yet has 25% of its prison population.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.

It was very difficult when I was young because there are problems with violence, gangs, guns, drugs - a criminal life. I had friends that choose a criminal life. Some of them are in prison, and some of them are dead. They chose the bad way.

Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.

Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime.

Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

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

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

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

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

People want to kill people because they don't want them out on the street again.

Respect for law is fading from the sensibilities of our people. Twenty times as many people in proportion to the population are lawlessly killed in the United States as in Great Britain. There are fifty times as many robberies. Life and property are relatively more unsafe than in any civilized country in the world.

There was more violent crime among poor Irish immigrants in New York City 100 years ago than there is among blacks and Puerto Ricans today.

If crime went down 100 percent it would still be 50 percent higher than it should be.

Everybody in Detroit knows somebody who is in prison…. In Detroit, most of us are one incident from being locked up.

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

While crime is indeed up in some cities in the last month or so since the stay-at-home orders lifted, crime is nonetheless down overall for 2020. Indeed, violent crime has trended downward now for decades.

The violence in New Orleans is erupting and it's continuing to grow at an alarming rate.

Kids who are the victims of broken families are more likely to end up in poverty, rehab, or jail. I'm a Republican, but I respect President Obama for setting the right example and addressing this problem.

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