Sentence examples for crime decrease from inspiring English sources

Critics pointed out that he was taking credit for a crime decrease that was part of a nationwide trend.

In the nineteen-nineties, the crime decrease was attributed to big obvious changes in city life and government — the decline of the drug trade, the gentrification of Brooklyn, the successful implementation of "broken windows" policing.

As the social scientist Franklin Zimring has shown repeatedly, we didn't need to build, so to speak, a twelve-foot barrier separating the criminal from his crime in order to see crime decrease — we built a series of smaller obstacles, which ended by producing dramatic results.

Next to a picture of her daughter and her husband, also a police officer, she has a whiteboard where satisfying crime statistics are marked up in blue pen: "Strengths: all crime decrease, 9.2%; shoplifting decrease 20%." Of Hertfordshire's 10 police districts, the North Herts area she controls had the lowest recorded crime last year, and came second in terms of performance.

If Moffitt is correct, it follows from this statement that the crime increase in the 1980s and 1990s was primarily an increase in the prevalence of adolescence-limited offending, and that the crime decrease was primarily a decrease in the prevalence of adolescence-limited offending.

In fact, according to the New Yorker's Eyal Press in his recent article, studies by Harvard sociologist, Robert Sampson, have shown that incidences of crime decrease in neighborhoods with an influx of immigrants.

Focus on criminals, and crime decreases.

In the Northeast, crime decreased 1.9percentt.

Such a system, however, is not responsible for enormous crime decreases.

In the 1990's the size of the Police Department was greatly increased, and crime decreased.

The crime decreases, the largest in any precinct in the city this year, had eluded his predecessor.