1.   But violent crime has dropped by almost a quarter in the past three years.

2.   Crime has dropped since the video cameras were installed in the town centre.

3.   Although he acknowledged that crime had dropped in his neighborhood, he insisted that there were still problems.

4.   Although police say crime has dropped in the area since last year, it is still considered a hot spot.

5.   Although reported crime dropped in commands across the five boroughs, some areas experienced greater drops than others.

6.   And after five years of steady increases, crime dropped in Salt Lake last year.

7.   Another popular theory holds that crime is dropping in cities across the country in part because the population is aging.

8.   As gun ownership rises, violent crime drops.

9.   At a time when crime is dropping sharply in most American cities, Indianapolis has broken its homicide record in three of the last four years.

10.   But there is little agreement about why those differences linger, or, for that matter, why overall crime has dropped so dramatically.