Crime
According to the "Crime In the United States" publication released by the FBI, in 2010 there were 2 murders, 8 rapes, 108 robberies and 236 aggravated assaults in the Florence area. Additionally, there were 2891 property crimes, including burglaries, thefts and motor vehicle thefts, placing the city 10th out of 320 metropolitan areas in the U.S. The population of the area included in the survey was 32,273.
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Famous quotes containing the word crime:
“He took control of me for forty-five minutes. This time I’ll have control over him for the rest of his life. If he gets out fifteen years from now, I’ll know. I’ll check on him every three months through police computers. If he makes one mistake he’s going down again. I’ll make sure. I’m his worst enemy now.”
—Elizabeth Wilson, U.S. crime victim. As quoted in People magazine, p. 88 (May 31, 1993)
“Each man’s private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess ...”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)
“Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to to the core.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)