Synonyms for crime wave
crime wave

Princeton's WordNet

1. crime wavenoun

   a sudden rise in the crime rate

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1. • Rise

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1. Donald Trump:

   There's a crime wave like nobody's ever seen before, we're not going to let it continue.

2. Greg Gutfeld:

   Having said that, it would be fun to do a hearing on the crime wave and interview the police from Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, New York City just to provide real context about actual threats to democracy.

3. Tania Owen:

   In the last 30 years that I have been in law enforcement, I have never seen anything like this. Both a combination of the crime wave that we have, as well as the lack of support for law enforcement.

4. Barack Obama:

   You have to step back and say you have to look at statistics. 2014 was a historic low in violent crime, if there's a spike in some cities, that's something we have to take seriously and pay attention to, but it certainly doesn't suddenly translate into this notion that a crime wave's coming.

5. Fox News:

   At the time, it was sold that local police departments might have pandemic-related budget shortfalls, not we need to keep cops on the beat because there's a crime wave, i think that any local department would argue that keeping cops on the beat to keep communities safe when they had to, because of budget shortfalls, fire police is something that helped them address crime in their local communities.