Sentence examples for crime declining from inspiring English sources

Police said little about the crime, declining to identify possible suspects, offer a possible motive or say exactly when the attack is believed to have occurred.

At the Tremont Grille, with the presidential caucuses just days away, regulars talked about crime, declining home values and the costs of caring for those who can't, or won't, speak English.

As a result, the country was in the midst of a cocaine epidemic, a spike in the divorce rate, rising crime, declining health, a jump in hate crimes, corroding schools, decaying public works.

Has crime declined?

In fact, juvenile crime declined.

But no one knows exactly why crime declined so steeply.

Allen J. Beck, a co-author of the report, said the prison populations fell because crime declined.

Beginning in the mid-1990s, violent juvenile crime declined, and it has continued to decline through the present day.

The following year, it dropped again, as the precinct outpaced the crime declines in many other neighborhoods.

The rate of violent crime declined 10.4percentt in 1999, the Justice Department said, while crimes against property dropped 8.9percentt.

In Boston, the crime declines over the last decade were so drastic they have been referred to as the Boston Miracle.