Sentence examples for increase in murder from inspiring English sources

Union leaders say that despite a recent increase in murder convictions in cases involving union deaths, there are still relatively few convictions and that prison terms have been too lenient.

"Part of the increase in murder rates is simply that, at a certain point, you can't go any lower," said James Alan Fox, the Lipman professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University.

But experts cautioned that the decline may be nearing an end because murder rates in the nation's largest cities showed the smallest decrease in 1999, and it was these large cities, of more than one million in population, that had led the increase in murder in the late 1980's, during the crack cocaine epidemic, and then also led the drop during the 1990's.

He said that the recent increase in murder rates was a clear symptom of a rise in drug trafficking crimes.

Three cities ― Baltimore, Chicago and Houston ― "account for around half of the increase in murder in major cities between 2014 and 2016," the report says.

"We've seen an increase in murders.

He stressed that the increase in murders had not occurred in mental health patients.

Her prepared remarks did not mention the 10.8% increase in murders.

Many cities, including New York and Los Angeles, had an increase in murders, the first since the early 1990's.

There has been a recent increase in murders, especially sexual killings of young women & children.

An explosive increase in murders since the mid-1980s has turned Latin America into the world's most criminally violent conti nent.