91.   Police report that robbery and petty crimes have risen in the wake of an economic crisis which has left more than one million without jobs.

92.   Police Chief Ting Yuan-chin said robberies and other petty crimes fell during the blackout because of intensified police patrols.

93.   A special police force set up to handle a potential increase in petty crime during the World Cup finals made its first arrests Monday, police officials said Tuesday.

94.   Among those freed were members of the Muslim militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad as well as Palestinians convicted of killing Arab collaborators with Israel or petty crimes.

95.   But Haduch said there has been a small increase in the number of petty crimes reported, mainly because the koban makes it easier for people to report them.

96.   Civil libertarians worry that the new enforcement campaign against petty crime could selectively target minorities.

97.   Early releases customarily affect women, juvenile inmates, elderly or disabled prisoners, World War II veterans, those suffering from tuberculosis and those convicted of petty crimes.

98.   Foreign tourists are often victims of petty crime, it said.

99.   He converted to Islam while serving an earlier prison term for petty crimes.

100.   He said prisoners accused of petty crimes like pickpocketing and writing bad checks were confined with convicted rapists and murderers.