Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person started to rely more and more on criminals.

What Brighton's got is a major sea port on either side, good for importing drugs, great for exporting cash, stolen cars, stolen antiques. It's got the largest number of antique shops in the UK, so it's a great place to fence stolen goods. It's got tremendous communication: you've got the sea ports, you've got the channel tunnel, you've got Gatwick Airport 25 minutes away, and London's 50 minutes away by train. So all these escape routes... Which is what villains like.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.

Drug traffickers have more and more haystacks in which to hide their contraband needles.

The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.

It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.

My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.

Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.

In Russia, there are those who make their money in criminal ways, but I earn everything myself.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Hyesan people have money, the most after those in Pyongyang, because it's near the border with China. Illegal smuggling businesses and Chinese trading companies operate there, so people can access outside products.

No border controls anywhere in the world are able to prevent determined criminals from crossing borders.

Black markets exist any time there is a profit to be made.

My dad wasn't a gangster, and he wasn't a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them.

I do a lot of lecturing, at colleges and police schools, and I always get the same questions: 'Do they really kill you? What do they do with the money? How do you become a wiseguy?'

As a teen-ager I played cards, shot craps, played pool, went to the track, hung around social clubs. I knew that some card and crap games were run by the mob, and some social clubs were mob social clubs. Even as a kid I knew guys that were here today, gone tomorrow, never seen again, and I knew what had happened.

And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.

The internal and international criminal gang will either be forced to work or simply exterminated.

Diamonds are forever.

A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some Wop.

I'm questioning it. We're trying to get a lot of money for health and education and I'm wondering... You look at these gangs, and I look back at Prohibition. When we didn't allow alcohol, what did we have? We had gangs. We had big gangs. It's something that needs to be discussed a little more. It's an economic issue and a violence issue.