'brazen crime' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to an act of crime that is committed in a bold and unashamed manner. For example: "The brazen crime shocked the whole city."
The bank had portrayed itself as the victim of a brazen crime.
Beyond questions of motive, there is the issue of actually pulling off such a brazen crime.
That might have been the end of the story, a brazen crime on a hot summer evening.
Hollandsworth spoke to all three of them and relates the Catts's own accounts of their path from suburban normalcy to brazen crime.
Those involved in the shadowy industry of forged photography, he said, range from brazen crime syndicates seeking easy money to individuals seeking advantageous business contracts, though power-hungry officials extorting political gain from comrades are also "pretty common".
— It was the most brazen crime in the memory of this Boston suburb: three men murdered with knife slashes to their throats in a second-floor apartment at 12 Harding Avenue; each corpse precisely positioned, stomach down, head turned a quarter to the right, marijuana sprinkled on top.
It came only after a series of brazen crimes had led to the classic tabloid heading "DAVE, DO SOMETHING".
The creeping chaos in Palestinian areas has been evident throughout the last three years of intifada: brazen crimes by masked gunmen, economic meltdown, periodic internecine killings.
Mr. Nurgaliyev has been under pressure from the Kremlin to clean up Russia's law enforcement agencies, and several high-ranking police officials have been fired after a string of brazen crimes involving police officers.
Prosecutors at the trial in federal court in Brooklyn will give jurors a lesson in a bygone era when the five Italian Mafia families had a greater appetite for brazen crimes and deadly payback for betrayals.
Even in hardened Gotham, where brazen crimes are nearly the norm, the murder of William Annis rivaled the 1972 mob hit on Joey Gallo for its sheer audacity, probably consumed as much newspaper ink as the Mad Bomber's 16-year spree, and sparked a communal soul-searching that the city would not again see until the killing of Kitty Genovese more than half a century later.
