Russell Walton Quotes

I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, we would get beat up in the street, I had my bike stolen. There was just a lot of real anarchy on the streets and sidewalks.

… the sickest political program to be conceived since television became a factor … it appeals to the prurient and prejudiced in a fashion which makes a mockery of its pretension to be speaking for moral conduct.

It seems to us that the rowdy class of New York has always been dealt with too tenderly. Their promiscuous stabbing affrays have come to be regarded too much in the light of a venial offense, attributable simply to a little harmless exuberance of the spirits, or, it might be, an extra glass of liquor.

Whether it is kids carrying knives because they are in gangs or kids carrying knives because they are afraid of gangs, it is the gang culture that underpins the problem.

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

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

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

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.

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.

I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.

It is only when the hearts of the Women are in the mud, that the People are destroyed.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't he said, 'Do you mind if I mug you here?'.

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.

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

I saw my city gripped by fear. Because of violent acts committed by illegal aliens, my residents were afraid to shop - or even drive - on certain streets.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.