This does not indicate a violent-crime problem: in the South Bronx, only 3% of convictions are for felonies.
The prime minister also said criminals deported back to the Caribbean island from the UK, the US and Canada contributed to the crime problem.
Yet to understand the depth of Russia's crime problem, it is important to shed one big misapprehension: that it is a wholly new phenomenon.
But a persistent crime problem, made worse by staggering poverty, widespread unemployment and a failing school system, threatens to snuff out that recovery before it even takes root.
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Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne described Ms Smith's plans as "half-baked", and said the government had been in denial about the scale of the knife crime problem.
Dr Johann Burger, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, which is a non-profit, independent organisation in South Africa, admits the country has "a serious crime problem" but emphasises the situation is improving.
Fears about South Africa's crime problem resurfaced last month when the chief executive of G4S said his company, the biggest security outfit in the world, would not work at the World Cup because of security concerns.
DeLarge is eventually jailed for murder, during which time he undergoes an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem - it causes him to suffer nausea whenever he contemplates an act of violence.
But is his perception, is the police chief's perception that the crime problem in Chicago has the same dimensions as in New York - it has the same causes, it's got the same pattern, for example - that this would be addressed by?
David Fraser, a former senior probation officer and author of Land Fit For Criminals, says there is a "very big youth crime problem in this country" and that government "is in denial about it", with about 300, 000 crimes committed by children under 16 every year.
JONES-BROWN: I think part of it is in the investment in the stereotype, that if the commissioner actually believes that the crime problem in the city and the mayor believes that the crime problem in the city are black and Latino folks, then they can't move off of that belief.
But to me it also speaks to South Africa's notorious wealth gap, and to a culture where lavishly paid senior officials - be they politicians, police bureaucrats or defence attorneys - appear to live in a very different world from the underfunded, underequipped foot soldiers struggling to get a grip on this country's enduring crime problem.
Mr Sharma admits that under-reporting of crime is a problem, but insists the government is working to address it.
And the federal government says that black on black crime remains a daunting problem.
Yet the problem that has transfixed the country is, very understandably, the problem of crime.
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Crime is a major problem in the Big Easy, and the police department is under enormous strain.
The Chicago problem is crime-ridden neighborhoods in which gangs murder each other and anybody who gets in their way.
One of Mr Gertz's difficulties is that solving crime is not his problem.
Although the South African bid committee have put a great deal of energy into their security plan, the country's terrible crime rate remains a problem.
The funds will go to about 200 communities in which police agencies have "partnered" with a primary or secondary school to target a specific problem of crime or violence in and around the schools.
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Of course, people worried about this happening moving their money is not a problem nor a crime.
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The financial crisis is making the problem of organised crime worse.
Illicit trade, often involving organised crime, is a huge problem.
Also, Belize has a problem with violent crime, much of it drug-related, and the trafficking of narcotics to the US. In 2011 Belize was added to a US blacklist of countries considered to be major producers or transit routes for illegal drugs.
Mr Blair acknowledged there was a "serious problem" with street crime but it was now being tackled through police initiatives.
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