Daniel Goldstein Quotes

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.

When 'The Washington Post' ran the first national story about FBI profiling in 1984, no one outside of law enforcement recognized the term.

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.

We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

The nice thing about your police procedural as opposed to your classic murder mystery is that in a murder mystery you don't know who did it. Whereas in a police procedural you know, you know everything often and you're watching the police home in.

Oh yeah In France a skinny man Died of a big disease with a little name By chance his girlfriend came across a needle And soon she did the same At home there are seventeen-year-old boys And their idea of fun Is being in a gang called The Disciples High on crack, totin' a machine gun.

The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.

A lot of people have that story that they used to sell crack or shoot people; that's nothing new. But honestly, if that was me, I probably still wouldn't be doing that because it's so many people that's doing that. It just gets old when you hear a million raps about how many ways I could shoot you. So I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.

Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

There is no question that abuse, drugs and exposure to violence at home can exacerbate someone's criminal tendencies enormously. But there are many, many criminals who don't come from that background.

I remember one little rainy day I went searching for this apartment and I saw so many people standing on a stoop on the corner in the rain. Later I realized, that was drug traffic. They were all buying drugs.

Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.

Cut throats, gun smoke, dope, and hoes, is what controls niggas souls.

When I'm playing a serial killer, I'm in it. I'm not judging him. I'm not judging his environment. I'm just looking for the why. Why is he the way he is? But, there's no doubt that, if you're a good actor, you're going to take this stuff home with you.

Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.

I rob banks because that's where the money is.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].

What is wrong with me i just bought a bag of weed from an infant.

I say, break the law.

Wake up, Astrid. Your psychotic criminal is playing with knives. (Sasha)

When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best...they’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they’re telling us what we’re getting.

Criminals thrive on society's understanding.