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:
“The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)
“There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”
—George Farquhar (1678–1707)