"The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct."
"Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like to talk about the good sides of ourselves. We don't like to talk about our hatreds, our distrusts of one another, our secrets, but crime stories drag those things to the surface and consequently they fascinate people and always have throughout all history."
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Source: Writer Bill James. The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.
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