crime wave

noun

: a sudden increase in the amount of crime in an area

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Homicides continued to decline in major U.S. cities — by more than 40% in some communities — during the first nine months of the year, according to new data that show the COVID-era crime wave evaporating. —

Russell Contreras, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024 Competing crime trends Each side has cast the opponent as overseeing a crime wave. —

Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Sep. 2024 Mind you, this governor and Legislature have yet to make a dent in any of the state’s pressing homegrown problems: a sprawling homelessness problem, crime wave, housing unaffordability, fleeing businesses. —

Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 15 Nov. 2024 Four years after the upheavals of 2020, the national crime wave has largely subsided, and so have the anti-police slogans. —

Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for crime wave