Philippe Coutinho Quotes

Living in Rio is dangerous sometimes.

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

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

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

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.

I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.

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

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 won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.

No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

I grew up in what my mom will always dispute as 'the hood.' She just doesn't like the name. But it had its similarities to any neighborhood like that. The all-black neighbors and the all-black problems and the all-black happiness. And I really loved it.

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.

No penal or political system which multiplies the population of the prisons at the rate of 10 per cent every year will solve a problem which is growing to be more and more of a danger to the social and moral life of the nation.

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

Not all are scum, but there is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who makes the streets unsafe.

New York was scarier than Baltimore ever was. It was terrible in the '70s. I'm glad they cleaned it up. I got mugged; I had to go to the hospital. Every time you went out, you got robbed. It was horrible. You can't imagine.

The violence in New Orleans is erupting and it's continuing to grow at an alarming rate.

Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.

In Chicago, a lot of people don't really got nothing to live for. Everybody can't ball. Everybody can't rap. Nobody is really doing those activities. There's nothing to do but the streets.

Spanish Harlem is like every ghetto in America. There's every distraction possible. To make it up out of there is really a task itself.

I've seen people get robbed, seen people get shot with my own eyes, for pointless petty crimes.

I grew up in a San Francisco very different from what many have experienced: a place called Plaza East, notoriously one of the most dangerous public housing developments in the City.

You can live an entire lifetime in Chicago and not hear a gunshot, but if you go in a certain neighborhood then you can live your whole lifetime hearing gunshots all the time.