Sentences with phrase «than the crime rate»

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This city along the Potomac River is known for its historical architecture, proximity to local arts and culture and low crime rate — 59 percent lower than Virginia overall.

Cyber crime and money laundering are growing and evolving at a faster rate than many organizations can keep pace with, especially while staying within regulatory requirements.

His firm publishes an annual ranking of financial centers that tracks more than 100 indicators, including nonfinancial measures like crime rates and air pollution.

Since 2011, rural crime rates in parts of Alberta have jumped more than 250 %.

Homicide increased at a higher rate between 1900 and 1910 than during Prohibition, and organized crime was well established in the cities before 1920.

We have far lower crime rates than just about any major US city, and I have never heard of anyone ask to be allowed to own a gun to fight off crime that does not even exist.

Internationally, Countries that have Enacted Gun Bans Have Violent Crime Rates 300 % Higher than the United States.

A recent study was done that found that crime rate was higher among those who prescribe to religion than those who were athiest / agnostic.

I would like to hear Mikee's explanation as to why the more secular G20 countries have lower crime and murder rates than the US, why atheists have lower incarceration rates than religitards, and why the red states have higher crime, divorce and teen pregnancy rates than the blues states.

My point is, if a belief in hell reduces crime, than why is it that christards and muzzies, who both believe in hell, have higher incarceration rates than atheists, who do not believe in hell.

A country where many more people believe in heaven than in hell, for example, is likely to have a much higher crime rate than one where these beliefs are about equal.

Although for a variety of reasons the per capita rate of conviction for most types of crime has been higher among the poor and the black, that alone can not explain why a tenth of the population should account for more than half of those executed.

This was more than welcome in a region that has to cope with political instability, high crime rates, a tea industry suffering from falling prices and rising costs, and a large part of the population living below poverty level.

Crime rates are soaring, and keeping your family safe is even more important than it may have been in years past.

They are located in areas with a higher than average crime rate, said David Sinski, senior program director of After School Matters, a non-profit headed by the mayor's wife, Maggie Daley, and one of the partner groups in NeighborSports.

Consider this, «Since more than 90 % of American parents admit to spanking their children, it's hard to accept that a decline in spanking is responsible for the purportedly escalating rates of youth violence and crime.

Every dollar we invest in high - quality early education can save more than seven dollars later on — boosting graduation rates, reducing teen pregnancy, reducing violent crime.

Another cited article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homicides-ownership-world-list analyzes gun control and crime rate in various countries, but there are much more differences between those countries than gun control only.

[282] As part of his campaign, Livingstone highlighted that by 2008, the Metropolitan Police had 35,000 officers, 10,000 more than it had had in 2000, also highlighting statistics to indicate falling crime rates across the city during his Mayorship.

Also, crime rates are lower in rural areas than in urban city centers, and police response times are much slower in rural areas than in urban areas due to the lower population density which means long distances from a police station to the average crime scene.

The truth is this: reoffending rates have hardly changed for a decade — and indeed those for short sentenced prisoners are unacceptably high, with almost 60 % of those sentenced to less than 12 months returning to crime within a year.

«We can help disrupt the supply of this poison that is killing people at an alarming rate,» Flynn said, adding that those suffering from opiate addiction who commit non-violent crimes such as petty larceny will receive treatment rather than a prison sentence.

The shadow Home Secretary ran into a similar storm of criticism last summer when he compared life in British inner cities to the popular American TV series The Wire, set in Baltimore, where the crime rate is far higher than anywhere in Britain.

Higher crime rates over there than we have here.»

If anything his party is doing slightly worse than before he became leader... despite George Osborne's announcement of spending cuts... despite an average disapproval rating for the Coalition of 10 %... and despite unhappiness about Europe and crime from the Tory base.

But hey since the average time to crime rate per the ATF in the US is 14 years, the number of felons buying their firearms from licensed dealers continues to fall 1994 14 % to 2008 5.96 %, and the poster child of all gun control laws is enforced less than 1 % of the time, alowing all but 13,024 felons out of just under 1 million of those rejected to go free and acquire their firearms from an unlicensed source is such startling evidence of how INEFFECTIVE our legal system is.

A spokesman for de Blasio's campaign said: «Under three years of Mayor de Blasio's leadership, crime is at record low levels, jobs are at record highs, graduation rates are up and New York City is building more affordable housing than ever before.

The Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke, has said that falling crime rates in past years have been due to increased prosperity rather than rising prison numbers.

While the average rate of these crimes has increased since 2005, it's currently no greater than rates for some earlier periods.

The factors that influence crime rates are far more varied and complex than any economic indicator.

When Weinberg and his collaborators Eric D. Gould of Hebrew University and David Mustard of the University of Georgia examined young males with no more than a high school education the demographic group that commits the most crime they found that average wages and unemployment rates were directly linked to the incidence of property crimes.

The research, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, reveals that inmates whose faces were rated as low in trustworthiness by independent observers were more likely to have received the death sentence than inmates whose faces were perceived as more trustworthy, even when the inmates were later exonerated of the crime.

People who commit crimes and who are treated, especially in institutional settings, reoffend at rates lower than untreated convicts and offenders without disorders — revealing that for most mentally ill offenders, the issue is not moral but psychological.

Even after controlling for driver age and gender; officer race; the crime rate and business density of the neighborhood; whether the stop resulted in a search, warning, citation, or arrest; and the severity of the offense (if there was one), more respectful language was used with white drivers than with black drivers, they report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In previous studies, the researchers showed that CPC program participants have attained higher incomes, and experienced lower rates of serious crime, incarceration, and depression than participants of other programs.

The link became even stronger; people with low resting heart rates were 49 % more likely to be convicted of violent crimes than those with higher resting heart rates.

Looking at violent crime specifically, Lake City, FL has a violent crime rate that is 255 higher than the Florida average and 295 higher than the national average.

And here's the real surprise: according to the Crime Victims Institute study, online daters actually tend to have slightly lower rates of victimization than traditional daters.

The crime rate among migrants in Germany rose by more than 50 per cent last year, according to new figures that have raised concerns the populist far - Right Rapper 50 Cent is facing a lawsuit from a snapper who alleges the star lifted his photos without permission and posted them on social media to promote his

Though it is a thriller at heart, and does have a high - speed driving subtext, the film feels more like a throwback to the music video stylized, R - rated crime dramas of the 1980s than the new Fast & the Furious over-the-top, CGI - infused modern action - thrillers.

A 2015 study found that adults who had been in the Fast Track intervention group as children had 30 to 40 percent lower conviction rates for violent and drug - related crimes than their peers.

The city has high rates of crime and teen pregnancy, and parents were thankful we were offering a place where their children would be safe and productive, rather than being home alone.»

He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»

A 1999 U.S. Department of Education study found that schools with more than 1,000 students had far higher rates of violent student behavior than schools with fewer than 300 students, and teachers and students in small schools were far less likely to be victims of crime.

The Northeast has lower violent crime rates than the sunshine belt.

Furthermore, in the schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.

In Arizona, adopted children are eligible for education savings accounts, and children in foster care are eligible for private school scholarships (like homeless children, children in the foster care system also appear in crime and prison statistics at higher rates than their peers from intact families).

Our criminology assignment help professionals suggest that it was a study which was done to identify why the crime and delinquency rates are higher in some neighborhoods than others.

The overall crime rate in California is slightly lower than the national average, which can have a positive influence on your insurance rates.

Illinois is a pretty safe state overall, but some cities have a better crime rate than others.