Sentence examples for crime measures from inspiring English sources

He has supported gun rights — more than we like — and has opposed hate crime measures.

Maggie Hughes is set to be the public face of a campaign against the Tory plan to opt out of EU cross-border and crime measures.

The review is likely to include low pay, tough crime measures including asbos, and the "contributory principle" in the welfare state.

Now Clarke's justice minister, Lord McNally, has weighed in against any kneejerk "tough on crime" measures being imposed on the package in reaction to the riots.

Norman Baker, the crime prevention minister, said that crime was down by 10% under the coalition government on both crime measures.

That same day the prime minister, David Cameron, told reporters his country would be exercising its right to opt out of a mass of European policing and crime measures, including the EAW.

The overall incidence of crime (measured by a group of 20 serious crimes) fell by 1.3% in 2012-13 to 4,068 crimes per 100,000 population.

He said that, taken together, the 14% fall reported in two consecutive quarters "may be evidence of an emerging downward trend in crime measured by the survey".

The types of crime measured in the "youth crime" category are defined on the Metropolitan Police Authority's website as: [A]ny offence of Most Serious Violence and Assault with Injury or Weapon Enabled Crime, where the victim is aged 1-19.

My colleague Alan Travis reports: An unusual cross-party alliance of Conservative and Labour MPs is expected to vote to include the knife crime measure in the criminal justice and courts bill despite the opposition of Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats.

But for others, it presumably drives support for gun restrictions: In a time when public order seems precarious, they're a "tough on crime" measure that even liberals can love.