“We are good citizens, and we cannot protect ourselves because you allow the criminals to run wild. ... I'd like you to come and live in the inner city for a week and see the importance of having a weapon. ... Go after the criminals and not the good people.” PeopleRunningCitiesWeekSecurityCrimeLike YouCitizensProtectWeaponsImportanceCriminalsGood PeopleGood CitizenInner City Author:Jesse Lee Peterson
“Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.” WayBookRunningTodayLanguageLevelsClassNovelModernCenturyCrimeAdvantageBottomRangeNovelistsBarriersDeniedConfined19th CenturyPredecessorsBreachHorizontal Book:Life & Letters: The Spectator Columns Source: Life & Letters: The Spectator Columns
“If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.” IfsPersonsRunningSeeingCrimeGunStandingStoresCop Author:Al Sharpton