How to Use crime wave in a Sentence
crime wave
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Yet much of the public still thinks the U.S. is in the midst of a crime wave.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
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Rodney Alcala was only in the city a week before adding to the New York crime wave.
—Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 14 May 2024
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New York just deployed National Guard troops to the street because of a migrant crime wave.
—CBS News, 10 Mar. 2024
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There arguably is indeed a crime wave sweeping the nation.
—Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
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For the last three years, shopkeepers across America have been up in arms about the alleged crime wave that has gripped the nation’s cities.
—Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
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Whenever there’s a toxic dumping story, it’s not seen as part of a crime wave.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
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Because before, kids are watching TV and then, much later, there is a crime wave, but it can’t be tightly linked to TV.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2024
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Some of the arrests recently made in relation to the crime wave have been Venezuelan migrants.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
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Dallas deserves credit for this attempt to protect its people from a new kind of crime wave.
—Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2023
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And that’s going to catch serious heat right now, as D.C. is struggling with a crime wave fueled by a lot of young offenders.
—Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
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And here at home, a crisis at our border, a crime wave in our major cities, families struggling, and the worst inflation in 40 years.
—Nbc Universal, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2023
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Secretary Mayorkas and Joe Biden opened the border — and helped unleash a national crime wave.
—Mark Green, National Review, 17 Mar. 2024
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In the run-up to the 2022 midterm elections, Adams was front-and-center in promoting the image of a crime wave in America’s cities, one that was amplified by local news.
—Max Rivlin-Nadler, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2023
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Some neighborhoods have suffered from the recent crime wave, including Ward 6, which includes the site where Cuellar was carjacked and is the largest ward in D.C.
—Luke Barr, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2023
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The robbery was part of a crime wave against street food vendors in Los Angeles, breathlessly reported on by the media.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
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Lightfoot also is the first mayor of a major U.S. city to face reelection following the pandemic, the recession and the crime wave that's occurred in many places.
—CBS News, 28 Feb. 2023
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DeWine’s visit to Cleveland follows a summer crime wave that many have called unprecedented.
—cleveland, 16 Aug. 2023
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The arrests on Thursday, however, were unrelated to that crime wave.
—Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
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Former New York governor Nelson Rockefeller toughened up punishment for drug offenses in the 1970s in response to a crime wave in the city.
—Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 20 Apr. 2023
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The crime wave has spurred national attention and on occasion hurled the institution into the zany milieu of 24-hour news, social media and pop culture.
—Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2023
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Other major cities such as Seattle, New York and Chicago had sued the automakers, claiming the cars’ lack of anti-theft technology had led to a crime wave and threatened public safety.
—The Courier-Journal, 7 Jan. 2024
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Buckingham said that Houston's soft-on-crime policies are being fueled by Democrat leaders who have contributed to the ongoing crime wave.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 20 Sep. 2023
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Trump’s emphasis on public safety fits into a broader Republican narrative that Democrats’ policies have led to the crime wave of recent years.
—David Sivak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 June 2024
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The report makes an urgent call for the city to get the intervention program back on track, and marks a fresh effort to understand how intercepting cycles of violence could turn the tide on Oakland’s current crime wave.
—Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
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John Bigs, who initiated an online petition opposing Thao, blamed the recent crime wave on a lack of funding for police and a delay in filling the empty office of police chief.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
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Two decades later, that liberal ideal had collapsed thanks to the largest violent crime wave in the 20th century and the discovery that few rehabilitation programs worked.
—Barry Latzer, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2023
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After the mayor's defeat, critics wasted no time in expressing their pleasure on Twitter that Chicago will soon have new leadership, touching primarily on the city's crime wave.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 1 Mar. 2023
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While crime in the subway has gone up in certain categories, the idea that there is a monumental crime wave in transit is simply an illusion, however persuasively it has been conveyed by tabloids and opportunists.
—Brandon Del Pozo, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2024
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If convicted Grier, like the four other Americans, faces a mandatory prison sentence in the territory, which two years ago implemented tough gun-laws to curb a violent crime wave and opted to hold tourists to the same standard as locals.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 May 2024
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Several vehemently defended their neighborhoods, insisting that fears of a crime wave are overblown and inflamed by news outlets and social media users who are either hyperfocused on what’s happening down the block or casting judgment from far away.
—Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2023
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