"The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct."
"It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not."
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Source: Writer Bill James. The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.
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