Sentence examples for declines in crime from inspiring English sources
* The historic declines in crime over the past several years.
Your article about declines in crime rates (news article, Dec. 28) mentions the "booming economy" as one causal factor.
In the last two decades, trumpeting declines in crime trends has become an annual end-of-the-year event, even when the numbers inched up.
(Compstat was brought to Los Angeles from New York by Bill Bratton, a tough-talking police chief who oversaw declines in crime in both cities).
Both earlier measures had been designed to forestall armed thieves, but the neighborhood has seen sharp declines in crime since the 1990s.
In previous years, a focus on such quality-of-life offenses has been credited for the record declines in crime during the Giuliani administration.
That powerful negative coefficient says that increases in the prison population go hand in hand with declines in crimes committed.
The findings do not change the overall picture of a decline in crime in recent decades.
Despite a decline in crime in recent years, he added, the overall trend is still troubling.
