The phrase "eliminate crime" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of discussing solutions to crime or reducing the level of criminal activity. For example, "Our government has proposed a number of strategies for eliminating crime in urban areas."
"You can eliminate crime," he says now. "Just become Saudi Arabia".
As others have observed, that requirement would be like requiring the justice system to eliminate crime by a certain date.
Or finally to discover how to eliminate crime in "Crime and Its Causes" by William Douglas Morrison (1902)?
Scrapping high-value notes would not eliminate crime and corruption but doing so would increase criminals' costs and make them easier to detect, Sands argued.
But at a community meeting on the issue last month, Inspector Robert Richard, the commanding officer of the 70th Precinct, said: "Teddy Roosevelt couldn't eliminate crime.
Another view, which fell in and out of favor, was that commerce alone could provide the engine that would eliminate crime, poverty and the slums that had developed after decades of industrialization and immigration.
Restoring order, it seemed, was not the same thing as eliminating crime.
And while many Afghans complain about Islamic strictures that seem medieval, they have praised the Taliban for eliminating crime.
Is there a feasible solution to eliminating crime, besides incarceration?
Duterte said his first 100 days would be concentrated in revamping the police force and eliminating crime.
Last year I took Luke to see the film The Interrupters, which documents the work of a group of ex-criminals working with Ceasefire, an organization dedicated to eliminating crime in some of Chicago's worst neighborhoods.
