Sentences with phrase «because less crime»

That helps to drive down the cost of renters insurance in Austin, TX, because less crime means less claims from property crimes, for example.

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As a blogger for The Economist points out, mid-sized cities score better than megacities because they tend to have less crime and congestion.

I don't want religion to be advertised because I want the crime of religion to be less easy to perpetrate and less money to be defrauded from decent people.

Patricia, I wish it was that easy, but millions of innocent people plea guilty to lesser crimes each day because man's justice is not Gods.

A person could be born with a predisposition for violence, and once they commit a violent act, it is no less a crime or sin because of their genetic state.

In my house, they wouldn't even be able to tell if it was a crime scene (because it always looks that way), much less separate the bad guy's fingerprints and hairs from all the stuff the kids track in every day.

For example, 28 percent of US - born Latinos said they are less likely to contact police officers if they have been the victim of a crime because they fear that police officers will use this interaction as an opportunity to inquire into their immigration status or that of people they know.

A study done by the University of Illinois at Chicago entitled «Insecure Communities: Latino Perceptions of Police Involvement in Immigration Enforcement,» found that 45 percent of Latinos stated that they are less likely to voluntarily offer information about crimes, and 45 percent are less likely to report a crime because they are afraid the police will ask them or people they know about their immigration status.

Ms. Noerdlinger's boyfriend problem is just more grist for the mill for Mr. Mullins and other union leaders, who are spinning the idea that the mayor's reforms are making the city less safe — Mr. Mullins going so far as to place a paid advertisement in newspapers urging the Democratic National Convention not to come to town because New York is «lurching backwards to the bad old days of high crime, danger - infested public spaces, and families that walk our streets worried for their safety.»

According to the study, crime dropped as a result of the reform largely because the police — feeling less budgetary pressure — felt free to arrest more suspects, many of whom would have gotten off in the past with a warning.

Yates's dispassionate shooting of those scenes in clinically sound locations certifies the grimness of Higgins's thesis (one gets a grubbily incontestable, time - and - money demonstration that crime often pays miserably), and ultimately he improves upon the experience of the book simply because the visual experience of the film is less monotonous than the verbal experience of the book.

In general, it's cheaper to insure cars in rural areas, because they have less crime, less traffic, and fewer accidents.

Unfortunately, everything I said above will be overlooked as a flaw because the industry screams 60 fps now, as if anything less is considered a crime.

There is a substantial body of case law on whether prosecution for a crime with elements A, B, and C bars prosecution for a crime with different elements arising from the same facts and circumstances (e.g. if acquittal of a lesser included offense whose elements must all be proved to convict on the more severe offense provides double jeopardy protection), that wouldn't be directly applicable in my alternative scenario because the offense tried the first time and the second would have exactly the same elements.

And your first paragraph doesn't quite apply because you're describing a defense against a crime, which would have to be prosecuted by the state, and prosecutors don't last long if they bring frivolous claims, much less nonsense arguments.

If you find a perfect house at a bargain basement price and you're wondering why it costs less than a similar house five streets over, it may be because the one you have your eye on is in an area with a high crime rate.

The sorts of offences that they commit tend to be reasonably minor offences but they do tend to be repeat offenders and because of their homeless status, they are less likely to be offered alternatives... Their poverty and homelessness have a direct impact on whether or not they choose to commit crime.

Clearly, a person who commits a crime because he is acting in accordance with Aboriginal customary law may be less morally culpable than someone who has acted in an utterly contumelious way without any justification whatsoever and this may in appropriate circumstances be a ground for leniency when sentencing Aboriginal offenders: Hales v Jamalmira (supra).

Pre-Kindergarten Fight Crime: Invest in Kids continues to fight for increases in high - quality pre-k programs because the preponderance of scientific research (and the experience of law enforcement leaders) shows that at - risk young children who participate are significantly less likely to commit juvenile and adult crime, need special education, and repeat an early grade and are more likely to graduate from high school and be productive members of socCrime: Invest in Kids continues to fight for increases in high - quality pre-k programs because the preponderance of scientific research (and the experience of law enforcement leaders) shows that at - risk young children who participate are significantly less likely to commit juvenile and adult crime, need special education, and repeat an early grade and are more likely to graduate from high school and be productive members of soccrime, need special education, and repeat an early grade and are more likely to graduate from high school and be productive members of society.

Conway says meth producers are more likely to choose vacant properties in high - end enclaves, because they are less likely to get caught there than in high - crime areas.