1.   All his efforts had failed to halt the increase in street crime.

2.   Apart from a few pickpockets in Rangoon, street crime does not exist.

3.   Because of the increase in street crime, many old people are afraid to leave their homes.

4.   Citizens in inner-city areas are desperately worried and rightly so, about street crime.

5.   From there they go to Madrid and Barcelona, where they are already being blamed for an increase in street crime.

6.   Manchester police have an even simpler explanation for the current rise in street crime.

7.   Street crime has almost been eradicated.

8.   Street crime is a major problem.

9.   Street crime is becoming a major problem.