David Simon Quotes

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

I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.

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

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

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

You all saw him - he had a gun.

Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.

I'm high off the indo creepin' with the quickness to the cut, bust one to his head while he munches on that donut.

Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

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

Bad Boy Entertainment did not shoot anybody. I didn't shoot anybody.

They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.

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 Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it.

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

We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries, and deeds of maniacal insanity it [marijuana] causes each year ... can only be conjectured.

Respect for law is fading from the sensibilities of our people. Twenty times as many people in proportion to the population are lawlessly killed in the United States as in Great Britain. There are fifty times as many robberies. Life and property are relatively more unsafe than in any civilized country in the world.

Outside of the killings, we have one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

If you ignore the homicides, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.

There are too many guns.

At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

There are too many guns in the hands of people that shouldn't have guns. There is too much gun violence in America.