Sentence examples for heightened crime from inspiring English sources

For years, even during the period of heightened crime and sagging family attendance, it managed to hold on.

It was a wild period of heightened crime, when many people put signs on their parked cars declaring no radio was inside.

CHICAGO — Trying to spark what he called "a sustained national conversation" about youth violence, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. met with public school students and elected officials here Wednesday, pledging a heightened crime-fighting commitment from the federal government toward vulnerable children.

"Other effects include heightened local crime," he added, citing a list of offenses that he attributes to illegal immigrants.

It has also heightened fears of crime among the beneficiaries because street robberies remain rampant here.

She said the Toulouse shootings by 24-year-old Mohamed Merah, who said he was inspired by al-Qaida, had heightened concerns about crime and immigration.

The results in this study show a heightened perception of crime that is both proximal and distal.

And suspicion was heightened when international crime agency Interpol issued a wanted persons notice for her arrest.

Heightened perception of crime can have a negative impact on business in general and reduces feelings of security for business owners, employees and clients.

This will help to further elucidate environmental factors that trigger a heightened perception of crime and with further testing could lead to a business fear generation measurement tool to be used by police and civic agencies.

The furor over the photo was heightened by a crime believed to be linked to the issue, according to Malaysia's attorney general, Abdul Gani Patail, who said that an ethnic Chinese man was abducted, stripped, and beaten by a group of men.