Crime
As of 1993, of all areas in California, the highest numbers of child abuse cases had occurred in the Antelope Valley. In 1992 it had the largest number of homicides investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department of any area in Los Angeles County.
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Famous quotes containing the word crime:
“By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State’s crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.”
—Ian McEwan (b. 1938)
“The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it’s intimate and psychological—resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)