Sentences with phrase «crime waves by»
Florida governor Bull Tyler (Roy Scheider) is trying to ease the dissatisfaction of his constituents in the midst of a major crime wave by getting tough on wrongdoers, and television producer Marty Rockman (Jerry Springer) has offered him a high - profile way to do just that.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- In a British suburb in central England, police officers accustomed to burglaries and household disturbances are breaking new ground by finding ways to battle the latest crime wave — human trafficking.
Public morality and general goodness were being corroded by vast waves of «pagan» immigrants, by crime, poverty, and industrial strife.
It hasn't reduced substance abuse, but rather has created a culture of violence fueled by profits from the drug trade, similar to the crime wave that accompanied the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920's.
It was prompted by a corruption crime wave that's hit the State Capitol in recent years and resulted in dozens of arrests, indictments, convictions and imprisonments.
«They are concerned because we have a million youngsters unemployed, we have wages being driven down and I am afraid a crime wave in London being caused by Romanians already.»
However, after a wave of violent gun and knife crime in London, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn united with London Mayor Sadiq Khan accused the Tories of «reckless failure» by cutting police numbers and slashing funds for local services.
As its 200th - birthday celebration approaches, it is in the grip of a brutal crime wave, orchestrated by Carl Grissom (Jack Palance), the boss of bosses, and his head henchman, Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson).
In this epic gangster tale, inspired by true - life tales of author Matt Bondurant's family in his novel «The Wettest County In The World», the loyalty of three brothers is put to the test against the backdrop of the nation's most notorious crime wave.
Low budget crime movies were never going to capture the Academy's attention, but the one and only film directed by Leonard Kastle now stands as a shining example of the brash, bold wave of filmmakers that changed the game at the turn of this decade.
Scholars in Europe began to embrace the term in 1955, when Raymond Borde and Étienne Chaumeton, in their book Panorama du film noir américain, used it more broadly to describe the wave of American crime films after World War II that, among many other attributes, featured insulted, beaten heroes driven by desperation to acts of violence.
In this episodic iteration, a crime wave — led by a mysterious figure known as the Scarab — is killing off prominent citizens of a major metropolitan city, and the mayor is haranguing the police commissioner and district attorney about the situation.
Los Angeles, the City of Fallen Angels, is a city swept up by a brutal crime wave led by a kingpin known only as Big X.
Lauren Beukes made waves last year with The Shining Girls, and she's back with another deliciously twisted and spine - tingling crime novel, Broken Monsters, which opens with a bizarre and disturbing crime scene in inner - city Detroit: a dead 11 - year - old boy whose lower half has been replaced by that of a deer.
Inkie: My name is Inkie, I started painting Graffiti in Bristol UK in 1984 as part of the first wave of UK graffiti alongside 3D (Massive Attack), Nick Walker and my crew Crime Inc, I was a punk rocker and heavily influenced by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfont's book Subway Art and the Charlie Ahearn movie Wildstyle.