Picking crime novels for grown-ups is a breeze.
Police officials from South Korea come to New York at least once a year to pick up crime-fighting crime-busting tips, Lieutenant Nadel said.
While ice-pick crimes were more prevalent in the days before refrigeration, when the iceman delivered large blocks of ice to homes, they have had a slight uptick in recent years.
SchoolStat borrows the tactics of the Compstat program — regular, intense meetings in which police officials famously pick apart crime data and, just as often, their subordinates — to analyze police performance and crime trends, and to deploy resources to trouble spots.
Nifong had denied any political motivation in the lacrosse prosecution ("I didn't pick the crime, I didn't pick the time," he told one campaign audience), but the case plainly helped him.
Drane just rolled out a national iPhone app that will pick up crime feeds in any city.
It has gotten so bad, the police have said, that if it weren't for Apple picking, crime would have been down last year, when there were almost 16,000 thefts, accounting for 14 percent of all crimes.
In his Oakland office, he displayed a poster with his father's campaign slogan from a run for San Francisco district attorney, in 1943: "Crack down on crime, pick Brown this time".
You ought not pick and choose among crimes, covering up some and revealing others.
Some people get it by crime; others pick a talent and go for it".
The new legislation makes it a crime to pick up someone if the driver "knows or recklessly disregards the fact that the alien is here illegally".
