Sentence examples for the murder down from inspiring English sources

Police put the murder down to a random home invasion.

Before the gramophone, you heard about the murder down the road because it was sung as a ballad.

Another lone madman influenced by nothing but his own distorted mind, like the lone gang of neo-Nazis who had been quietly killing Turks and Greeks in Germany for years unbothered by the police, who preferred to put the murders down to feuds or honour killings.

"The only way you are going to get the murder rate down is to get the guns off the street".

Johnson said that under his watch crime rates had fallen by almost 11%, with the murder rate down by a quarter.

In 1996, the New York Times ran an entirely serious article about what to do when you get arrested (cross your wrists when the handcuffs go on; call the cops "sir" or "ma'am"; carry coins for the precinct payphone).With the murder rate down, but still close to 1,000 per year, trading liberty for security seemed an excellent idea.

Since the start of this year, the increase has continued, notwithstanding a $24 million program called Operation Condor that began in January and is aimed at bringing the murder rate down by focusing on low-level drug crimes, and a 12percentt increase in summonses for violations like public urination and drinking.

He provided great detail about how the murder went down, including a description of the green getaway car the defendants allegedly sped away in.

"When the smaller crimes go down -- the quality of life crimes -- then the murder rate goes down," Mr. Carlisle said.

Through Dec. 20, the Chicago Police Department has counted 390 murders, down from 406 over the same period in 2013 and 488 in 2012, DNAinfo Chicago reports.

As of Oct. 20, the murder rate was down more than 24 percent compared with the same period last year.