Ice T Quotes

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

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

Court rules do not cause crime.

We're recycling very dangerous criminals over and over again.

In other words, in order to capture criminals, the law enforcement agencies must act criminally—a little lawbreaking does wonders for law and order.

All lawyers are the natural enemies of the police.

Before science all things must fall, including the ramparts of criminality.

Obviously crime pays, or there would be no crime.

Mutilations of parts of Fingers, are proper to disable such as have abused their dexterous use of them, by Pocket-picking, Counterfeiting of Seals and Writings, etc. Mutilations of other parts, may serve to punish and prevent Adulteries, Rapes, Incests, etc. And the smaller Corporal pains, serve to punish those, who can pay no pecuniary mulcts.

By law, certain acts are abolished, and the persons committing those acts either [are] executed or brought into conformity to law. The law thus protects a certain class, the law-abiding, and every law-order is in effect a subsidy to the people of the law. If the law fails to enforce protection, it destroys itself in time. The failure of the law to execute the incorrigible and professional criminal is creating a major social crisis and leading increasingly to anarchy.

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

I actually met a cop who worked with street gangs. I wanted to understand what drives someone who deals with very hardened criminals on a daily basis. How do you turn that off when you go home at night?

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

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.

I think that there are always these opponents that you circle back to that you have made some sort of legacy with and I feel Buddy Murphy is that for me.

If I was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.

I earned my share same as everybody. Well, I coulda got killed same as everybody. And I'm wanted by the law same as everybody. I'm a nervous wreck, and that's the truth. I have to take sass from Miss Bonnie Parker all the time. I deserve mine.

Crime generally punishes itself.

I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.

I had gone to jail, but I wasn't gettin' locked up for drugs then. I was gettin' locked up for guns. My moms kept finding guns and stuff in my room and she was gettin' more scared.