Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams (ie, paramilitary police units) were deployed about 3,000 times in 1980 but are now used around 50,000 times a year, often to handle relatively modest crimes, like breaking up poker games.
Although undocumented crime or "dark figures" exist (undiscovered, unreported, and unfiled cases), they are usually related to relatively modest crimes (Skogan 1977).
Factory, $19.93, PG) The People Against O'Hara Spencer Tracy was deep into his patriarchal phase at MGM when he appeared in this modest, 1951 crime drama, playing a recovering alcoholic who must scrape together the nerve and skill that once made him a leading criminal defense lawyer to save the life of a young war veteran (James Arness) accused of murder and robbery.
For the mayor, the event may have been no more than a routine news conference about a modest new crime-fighting program, cost: $10,000.
The review of 44 research studies on CCTV schemes by the Campbell Collaboration found that they do have a modest impact on crime overall but are at their most effective in cutting vehicle crime in car parks, especially when used alongside improved lighting and the introduction of security guards.
The performances are solid, and the film as a whole works as a modest, satisfying little crime story.
Since our last chart for this page three months ago, there has been a modest decline in crime rates in Baghdad.
Howard's last credits were mostly modest B-film crime dramas, including Money and the Woman (1940) and Bullets for O'Hara (1941).
(See 9.21am) 10.11am: On the subject of CCTV, my colleague Alan Travis points out that the latest Home Office evaluation found that CCTV only has a modest impact on crime levels.
Brian Capron, who played Hillman and sings the song in the musical, is modest about his crimes.
Yet even that modest reduction in crimes and prison yields cost benefits.
