Sentence examples for crime means from inspiring English sources

Cutting crime means shrewder, less heavy-handed policing, so that locals co-operate with cops.

In Espinoza's words, the pervasiveness of immigrant crime means that "every state is a border state".

Being tough on crime means cracking down on violence while accepting that many law-abiding young people enjoy using cannabis.

"Unfortunately, our whole system has been misled into believing that 'tough on crime' means more incarceration," he said.

The perception that the police might be in on the crime means that most abductions go unreported.

Criminal law, he said, "is not the solution for every human behavior, and creating a crime means also setting up a criminal procedure, arrests, and so on".

What did the crime mean?

Broken promises on knife crime mean broken lives.

Voters demanded tougher penalties for convicted felons, and being "soft on crime" meant certain electoral defeat.

Here some of Sydney's most notorious criminals once presided in the days before drugs, when crime meant prostitution, sly grog-shops and illegal strip-joints and gambling dens.

Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, commissioner of the Metropolitan police, warned large budget cuts and the changing nature of crime meant radical reform of how the public was kept safe was needed.