Synonyms for crime rate
crime rate

Princeton's WordNet

1. crime ratenoun

   the ratio of crimes in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year

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1. Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D.C.:

   If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.

2. Sheriff Judd:

   I know that’s a novel idea for some people, our murder rate is up while our total crime rate is down but even in the demand for service, we see the angst.

3. Bishop Kossie:

   When we moved into this area, it was considered the highest crime-rate area in the city of Houston, people shot first and asked questions later.

4. Shuji Yamaguchi:

   I understand the criticism. But I want to say our system... is supported by most Japanese people, and still the crime rate is going down every year, so I think our system works very well.

5. David Paterson:

   For the first time in my life – even in the late ‘80s and ’90s when the crime rate was killing 2,000 people a year – I never felt as unsafe as I do now just walking around and God forbid, sometimes we take the subway home from WABC, and you’re hearing about an assault on the subway almost every other day.