Sentence examples for crime fall from inspiring English sources
Whatever happened to make street crime fall, it had nothing to do with putting more men in prison.
From their windows, those people watch the street for trouble, and this, to some degree, helps crime fall.
But it is fair (and essential) to say that the great crime fall is at best unproven and at worst a politically useful myth.
Scotland Yard has confirmed that sexual violence against women by gangs is now "at the top of our agenda" following initiatives that have seen gun crime fall by 17% and knife crime offences by 11.5%.
Bigger factors behind the crime fall in the 1990's were more incarceration, the subsidence of battles over crack and, as my work with Steve Levitt shows, the legalization of abortion in the 1970's.
To which we can add the questions of Gerrie Nel, leading for the prosecution, and those of the judge at the original bail hearing: why would someone who slept with a firearm under his bed, and was apparently fearful of crime, fall asleep with a sliding door to the balcony wide open?
Other kinds of crime fell too.
Crime fell throughout the 1990's.
In that relatively short time, crime fell in 278 authorities.
Property crime fell 28 percent in the same period.
