How to Use crime wave in a Sentence

crime wave

noun

• 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
• 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
• New York just deployed National Guard troops to the street because of a migrant crime wave.
  — CBS News, 10 Mar. 2024
• There arguably is indeed a crime wave sweeping the nation.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Some of the arrests recently made in relation to the crime wave have been Venezuelan migrants.
  — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
• Dallas deserves credit for this attempt to protect its people from a new kind of crime wave.
  — Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Secretary Mayorkas and Joe Biden opened the border — and helped unleash a national crime wave.
  — Mark Green, National Review, 17 Mar. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• DeWine’s visit to Cleveland follows a summer crime wave that many have called unprecedented.
  — cleveland, 16 Aug. 2023
• The arrests on Thursday, however, were unrelated to that crime wave.
  — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 26 Aug 2024