How to Use anti-crime in a Sentence

anti-crime

adjective
  • Some could argue that this is due to other anti-crime initiatives.
    — Elinor Simek, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Four seats held by progressives were won by candidates running on an anti-crime platform.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023
  • For Landry, who was elected on an anti-crime platform, the law’s passage fulfilled a campaign pledge.
    — ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels anti-crime vigilante group, trails in third.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • At the time of his escape, the station’s commander was in a meeting with the anti-crime unit in her office, police said.
    — Larry Madowo, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
  • What about the increasing network of anti-crime cameras that monitor public parks, streets, and the like?
    — Stephen L. Carter, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Online comments about retail theft tend to break down as either anti-crime or anti-capitalist.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • He’s even sought to push Sliwa, founder of the anti-crime vigilante group Guardian Angels, out of the race.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • His past includes stints as a radio host and beret-wearing Guardian Angels anti-crime vigilante group founder.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Congress never passed an anti-crime equivalent of an economic stimulus bill.
    — German Lopez, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • And the new administration must act resolutely against anti-crime militias.
    — Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2018
  • The anti-crime initiative saw an increase in the military’s presence in prisons and communities across the country.
    — Chris Massaro, FOXNews.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Still, Manzo’s posture resonated with many in a region where polls show growing support for aggressive anti-crime tactics.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
  • On crime, Brazile suggested the administration did not believe in the rule of law or have a comprehensive anti-crime program.
    — Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • In his rise to the Presidency, Roosevelt had touted his anti-crime record as New York’s governor.
    — Anthony Gregory / Made By History, TIME, 23 July 2024
  • Republican Curtis Sliwa, who founded the anti-crime group the Guardian Angels, is a distant third in the polls.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The problem is Sliwa, the 71-year-old founder of the Guardian Angels anti-crime vigilante group, isn’t going anywhere for now.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The White House defended Biden's backing as a sign of his support for anti-crime efforts despite also endorsing home rule for the district.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels anti-crime vigilante group, said in a statement that the only poll that mattered is the one on Election Day.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Before launching a new anti-crime socioeconomic initiative, the López Obrador administration would do well to study what has worked, what has not, and why.
    — Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2018
  • In the November election, voters approved Proposition 36, which toughened anti-crime laws by turning many drug and theft crimes into felonies.
    — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 2 Mar. 2025
  • There is also a Republican candidate for mayor, anti-crime activist Curis Sliwa.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA Today, 24 June 2025
  • The imposition of visa restrictions followed previous measures including restrictions on the country's elite anti-crime force.
    — Julhas Alam and Krutika Pathi The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The committee called several witnesses, including the mother of a homicide victim, a bodega clerk who was wrongfully charged with murder, and an anti-crime activist, among others.
    — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Noboa, heir to a fortune built on the banana trade, is expected to continue applying some of his anti-crime strategies that part of the electorate finds appealing but which have tested the limits of laws and norms of governing.
    — Gonzalo Solano and Regina Garcia Cano, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels anti-crime vigilante group, trails in third.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Curtis Sliwa, founder of the 1970s-era Guardian Angels anti-crime patrol, is on the Republican line.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 15 July 2025
  • Does the introduction of an anti-crime unit with AI fraud detection technology materially impact how ?
    — Ann Rutledge, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
  • Still, those who are genuinely interested in eliminating crime, as opposed to exploiting the issue for political purposes, will take heart in the new trends and study them for hints about which anti-crime policies do and do not work.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 28 July 2024
  • On Saturday, Johnson argued that sending the military to get involved in anti-crime operations in the country’s biggest city is un-American.
    — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 30 Aug. 2025

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