Patrick Murphy Quotes

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

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

Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.

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

Foreign Criminals in New York

The main cause of crime is linked very directly to mass immigration.

The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from violent crime in America? Inner city communities. Who has a personal and professional interest in lowering that violence? Cops.

The increasing crimes in Chennai have become a cause for concern. Chain snatching has become a routine affair.

Look at New York and the number of crimes out there. Every big city has crime. Bombay is the biggest city of India. So, naturally, all crimes in Bombay get banner headlines.

New York has a strong focus on the migration of immigrants, and there is a crime element there and even an underbelly, but Chicago is a much harder and more brazen city.

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

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.

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.

I was a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Limerick city, and I used to cover the district court meetings. All of life passed through the Limerick courthouse. Misery, malevolence, the dark side of humanity... I tell ya, it made 'Angela's Ashes' look like 'The Wonderful World of Disney.'

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.

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.

Crime is the number one problem in Russia.

Crime is a tax on the poor

Italians are a riffraff of desperate scoundrels, ex-convicts and jailbirds.

He must be a bold man indeed who is confident that he knows what causes crime.

The most malign of all these dangers today is disregard and disobedience of law. Crime is increasing. Confidence in rigid and speedy justice is decreasing.

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.

Thousands of Americans die at the hands of illegal aliens every year. Every murder, every rape, every violent gang crime committed against Americans by illegal aliens is an utterly preventable crime.