With the economy's current troubles, many people assume a crime wave is just around the corner.
In the early 1980s, when a crime wave threatened to wipe out Jamaica's tourist industry, it was rescued by Sandals, a locally-owned chain, which marketed its all-inclusive hotels as a safe way to visit the island.
When the Kittredge house is burglarized in a crime wave that the newspapers are blaming on vagrants, the plot becomes a mild mystery that Kit tries to solve for the sake of her young hobo friend Will (Max Thieriot).
If we didn't allow the children of illegal immigrants to go to school, we would have had 70, 000 children on the streets at a time in which New York City was going through a massive crime wave, averaging 2, 000 murders a year, 10, 000 felonies a week.
But on neighbouring Antigua, which suffers a similar crime wave, two newlywed British tourists were killed in July.
The catch is that property developers are turning the decrepit buildings, abandoned when most businesses fled a crime-wave for the northern suburbs in the early 1990s, into swanky apartment blocks, and property prices have been rocketing.
Gupta and Lal are just two of thousands of victims of a new and vicious crime wave that has cast a pall of fear over Bombay, India's commercial and cultural center and a city that has always thrived on boisterous ostentation.
Some 130, 000 people joined him to press for tougher penalties and more effective policing to contain a wave of crime.
"We are seeing a big wave of crime in Sao Paulo, which is not good for its image or tourism, " FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke said last month.
Since then, however, a wave of serious crime, including the rape and murder of a young girl, has reopened the debate on capital punishment.
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In parallel to the consumers conducting millions of transactions online or via mobile applications, a new wave of financial crime and cyber threats have emerged in the banking sector to exploit these new access channels as part of a broader network based threat to banking security.
But a wave of drug-related crime crossing into America has made many others support the Minutemen.
However, the country still suffers from serious problems related to corruption, a weak legal system, and an ongoing (though declining) wave of organized crime and violence.
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