Donnie Wahlberg Quotes

Growing up, I think I was arrested 20-odd times by the Boston police. The good news is that I've been able to use those experiences in a lot of my roles, and that has been a blessing.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

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.

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

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.

Crime is contagious.

There was more violent crime among poor Irish immigrants in New York City 100 years ago than there is among blacks and Puerto Ricans today.

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.

If it was up to me, frankly I would be hanging some of the gang leaders from our street lamps.

If you allow young folk to be abominably brought up and their characters corrupted little by little, from childhood; and if then you punish them as grown-ups for committing the crimes to which their training has consistently inclined them, what else is this, I ask, but first making thieves and then punishing them for it?

If you don’t put positive things in the city’s open spaces, they will be filled by negative things.

These children are unfortunate rather than criminal. Their delinquency is not the product of nature but rather the cruel circumstances into which they were born.

I was a police reporter, so I got into the worlds that I write about, and I think many of the details in my books come from those days.

By the time I was 23 years old, I had multiple arrests.

Gang members aren't frightened into acceptable behavior by increased penalties, enhanced punishments, and the promise of new detention facilities.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

For a while, many years ago, my job was to get mugged. My job was to walk around Times Square trying to get a mugger to attack me so that someone else could come in and arrest the mugger.

Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.

We need law enforcement as the ultimate deterrent to stop irresponsible and rash young people from making mistakes that will harm others and themselves. Put bluntly, we need them to be scared of getting caught and of getting punished.

I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools, something like that. The morals charge was a frame-up.

Personally, I never had any negative encounters with the law growing up.

You can take the boy out of Philly but not the Philly out of the boy. It shapes my world view. It was a great place to grow up.