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:
“Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that specieas alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.”
—Georges Bataille (1897–1962)
“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)
“Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)