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" The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct. "
Bill James
Crime
Business
System
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" The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed. "
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" It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case. "
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" Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently. "
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Talk
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" Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden. "
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" Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you. "
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" I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers. "
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Down
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" Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. "
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Capable
Doing
" When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers. "
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Grew
Small
" If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants. "
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Look
Party
" When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period. "
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People
Persuade
You
" Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment. "
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Real
Television
Violence
" We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime. "
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Only
More
Lifetime
" In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example. "
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Staircase
Details
Important
" There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible. "
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Great
Measure
People
" Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts. "
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Think
Evil
People
" Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics. "
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Statistics
Breakfast
People
" Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. "
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New
Famous
" Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin. "
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Us
Medicine
Miracles
" I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were. "
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Questions
Asking Questions
Better
" I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball. "
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I Can
Family
Baseball
" You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean? "
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You
Baseball
Changes