Sentence examples for professional crime from inspiring English sources

Mel saves him and inducts him into 'the life', underworld argot for full-time professional crime.

The Flying Squad, which fights "professional" crime in the capital, reported in 2004 that half its cases involved firearms.

This is a significant departure for Mr. Bruckheimer, whose shows normally exalt professional crime fighters: police officers, F.B.I. agents, coroners.

Since Churchill's "ferocious rascals" perished in the flames, newly arrived immigrants from all over the world have been blamed for importing professional crime and violence into Britain.

For the moment, we are left with an enjoyable, highly professional crime novel that has escaped from the aim its author had for it but taken on a massive new significance for readers.

But against this hope, and against the waves of pro-Lawrence partisanship that flooded the court from the public gallery, stood the unanimous opinion of the professional crime reporters that acquittal was impossible: 'They'll never swallow those words', as one of them put it, with a kind of cynical smugness that seems, even in memory, peculiarly detestable.

Despite its initial promise, the professional crime-fighting model of policing had many drawbacks.

Such findings led to an increased questioning of the professional crime-fighting model of policing and helped to usher in a period of unprecedented experimentation and openness to change.

The new wisdom led in the 1980s to the gradual displacement of the professional crime-fighting model by a set of strategies and programs collectively known as community policing.

Analysts point to the history and culture of South Africa, a deeply patriarchal society that devalues crimes against women and where 19 years after the end of apartheid the criminal justice system is still struggling to transform itself from a security force aimed mainly at protecting the white minority into a professional crime-fighting organization.

Born in 1904, Hughes was the author of fourteen novels and a volume of poetry; she was also a professional crime-fiction reviewer, and wrote for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Herald Tribune, and for forty years, the Albuquerque Tribune.