The suburban cul-de-sac offered a safe place to play, with lower crime rates than cities.
Cutting crime in the cities would end the "exodus to the countryside" and ease pressures on the green belt.
Robbers on motorbikes pulling up alongside cars and holding them up is quite a common crime in Pakistani cities.
Camden was in civic free fall, on its way to becoming one of the poorest, most crime-ridden cities in the nation.
Even in the Republican CNN-YouTube debate, GOP candidate Mitt Romney said fathers are part of the answer to addressing crime in inner cities.
He argues that just as special army units were trained to fight the FARC in the jungle, special police units are needed to combat crime in the cities.
Crime rates in many cities have fallen sharply in the 1990s.
You are almost twice as likely to be the victim of violent crime in towns and cities, almost three times as likely to suffer a burglary.
There are more armed officers out on the streets of England and Wales than there have ever been really in response to the gun crime problems in certain cities and that's to reassure the public that the police do take this seriously.
Our big cities are very secure and their crime rates are very low relative to other big cities all over the world.
Some schools with high per capita crime rates, such as Texas State Technical College in Waco, Texas, lie in the middle of cities with fairly high crime rates.
And in cities as violent and crime ridden as Rio can be, one would think that a similar shoot out would have occurred by now in cities where there is easy access to firearms.
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While homicide rates remain stubbornly high in most major US cities, violent crime is extremely rare in Dakar.
America has more murder than many similarly advanced countries, but overall violent crime, save inner-cities plagued by family breakdown, remains below peer nations.
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The City of Angels is home to the fourth highest crime rate of the 50 cities measured with more than 20, 000 violent crimes committed in 2011 according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report and an unemployment rate of 10.3%, nearly three points higher than the national average.
Older suburbs are starting to suffer from some of the crime and joblessness that afflict inner cities.
But an NRA spokesman noted that crime has been dropping in many cities nationwide for decades, regardless of the gun laws.
The crime rate in parts of the big cities such as Johannesburg is well known.
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And while major crimes show continuing decline in right-to-carry states, this phenomenon parallels a major crime rise in heavily gun-controlled cities.
Akashic publishes original stories set in different cities, as well as crime novels written by Cuban authors and an eclectic list of general interest fiction and nonfiction.
And it also leaves out the fact that you could certainly use other methods, as other cities do, to force crime down that don't rely on this kind of very aggressive stop-and-frisk activity that embarrasses and humiliates, and most importantly, drives people away from police.
It's so bad that a 2007 study showed iPod robberies bumped up overall crime rates in some major U.S. cities.
The country which has taken this furthest is the United States, where the prison population has quadrupled over the past three decades to 1.6m, and where crime rates have recently been falling in many big cities.
In the violent peripheries of some cities, there is a danger of rising crime undoing the good that is being done by education.
The first mules tended to be new entrants to the UK, processing funds generated by crime within their own communities in London and other major cities.
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San Jose had very low death rates from cancer and heart disease, the lowest percentage of smokers in any of the 100 cities in the ranking, and not much crime.
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As is the case in most cities, more police on campus usually means less crime.
But broadcasting bird song meshes with the concept of crime prevention through environmental design, he says, in which cities might improve lighting or play cheerful music in public spaces.
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Often topping the list of the most dangerous cities in America, Detroit has long been synonymous with crime.
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Increasingly, cities are enlisting private security forces and citizen watchdogs as crime fighters.
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