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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

How to use crime rate in a sentence?

1. John Skaggs:

   It's a good community, the crime rate is relatively low, we don't have many incidents that occur in the area.

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

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

4. Barack Obama:

   Over the last few years a lot of people have become aware of the inequities in the criminal justice system, right now, with our overall crime rate and incarceration rate both falling, we're at a moment when some good people in both parties, Republicans and Democrats and folks all across the country, are coming up with ideas to make the system work smarter and better.

5. 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.

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