For instance: conventional wisdom says that the crime rate should rise during a recession.
And during the current downturn, the unemployment rate rose as the crime rate fell.
Most of the tourists stick to the north coast, where the crime rate is fairly low.
But as the general crime rate went down, so did the crime rate of released offenders.
As the boomer generation matured, married, found jobs and shouldered mortgages, so the crime rate fell.
The crime rate in parts of the big cities such as Johannesburg is well known.
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On its website, the city attributes the drop in the crime rate since then to the law.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Unsurprisingly, the crime rate here has become a political issue ahead of the December presidential elections.
And now they wonder why the streets are full of prostitutes and the crime rate is rising.
One would think that the crime rate would go up with the release of all of these inmates.
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The crime rate in these 31 parks hit its highest level in five years, the NYPD statistics show.
You incorrectly say that the imprisonment rate is tied to the crime rate.
As in Sammamish, the crime rate is much lower than the national average.
What are you doing, secretary of state, about the crime rate, hospital waiting list, traffic jams, trains, schools, litter, hooligans?
Some believe that the upturn in the crime rate is directly linked to the number of unreformed ex-convicts on America's streets.
Mr. Bratton has some experience with jailing bad guys, making them stay off the streets and watching the crime rate drop.
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The crime rate in schools has fallen from 155 for every 1, 000 students in 1993 to 102 per 1, 000 in 1997.
But although the crime rate remains well below that of other rich countries, it has been rising over the past seven years.
Yet, if the official statistics are to be believed, the crime rate for the 21 most serious offences has actually fallen by 17%.
In the same way, the rise in the crime rate that started in the early 1960s coincided with the teenage years of the baby-boomers.
While wandering through an attractive neighbourhood, you might ask your mobile device about apartments for rent nearby, the crime rate, local amenities, and so on.
Some people, quite legitimately say that drugs should be liberalised because that would make it easier to control the price and maybe restrict the crime rate.
The crime rate was higher in the 1960s and 1970s when many in that large generation were teenagers, an age when higher proportions of people commit crimes.
If new police statistics are to be believed, the crime rate for the 21 most serious categories has fallen by nearly a fifth in the past 15 years.
Elsewhere, the report said the crime rate in Scotland was lower than in England and Wales for most types of offences, while the "fear" of crime was falling.
Those who are against gun control say this city has the tightest gun control laws in the country, proof positive that such restrictions do not touch the crime rate.
Of course, for most of us, this isn't remotely how it is (I've not tasted port for 30 years and, apart from bicycle theft, the crime rate in Cambridge is low).
Two leading academics argue that the increase in abortions among the poor and women from minority communities could explain up to half the fall in the crime rate in the country.
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