Sentence examples for crime spending from inspiring English sources

His lawyers have argued that his supposed crime — spending time in the woman's apartment while he was supposed to be on patrol — did not jibe with the legal definition of official misconduct.

So it is with much else, of course: early investment in childcare helps in avoiding later spending on the consequences of vandalism and crime; spending on mental health leads to less spending on prisons; getting stroke survivors the correct physiotherapy means they can carry on working and paying taxes, rather than depending on the welfare state.

As far as the dramatic content of the video goes, it depicts a working class teenager rejecting school and conventional employment to pursue crime, spending his time in pubs and strip clubs.

They both dabbled in small-time crime, spent time in jail and were radicalised to reject hardline doctrines of fringe extremist groups in favour of something even more violent.

Other agents, such as those disrupting serious organised crime, spend considerably less time undercover, but an exception is made for those who need to gain the trust of environmental activists.

Mr. Hague attributed these increases to policies in which police officers, instead of fighting crime, spend much of their time "filling in forms, hanging around in court waiting rooms and complying with the latest politically correct directive from the Home Office".

Since 1996 the government has quadrupled its anti-crime spending.

By 2008, according to the authors, America's spending on counterterrorism outpaced all anti-crime spending by some $15 billion.

Mr. Mandela, convicted of sabotage and other crimes, spent 27 years in prison before being released in 1990.

The inmates in Correctional Camp No. 28, most of them convicted of drug offenses and violent crimes, spend their days sewing coats for police officers, inside a high concrete fence and coils of razor wire.

But with corruption plaguing many judicial systems and prosecutors overwhelmed with drug cases, many who are accused of crimes spend far longer than they expect in legal limbo, leaving prisons like Comayagua's grossly overcrowded.