Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment. It's an interesting phenomena and I tried to put it in perspective and tried to think through a few of the real questions that this sometimes unseemly business raises.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment. It's an interesting phenomena and I tried to put it in perspective and tried to think through a few of the real questions that this sometimes unseemly business raises.

The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.