11.   COMPUTER -- High-tech crimes are becoming a new challenge to police departments.

12.   Crime has become a critical issue.

13.   Even though bank robbery has been declining nationwide, the crime has become remarkably common here.

14.   Gomez, the psychologist, worries that the crime has become so common that Colombians now simply accept it as a normal part of life.

15.   If one or both brothers are found guilty, then these crimes will become part of a disturbing special category.

16.   In a race filled with contrasts, the two campaigns differ on why crime has become a focal point.

17.   In the process the authority of police departments was thrown into question, and minor crimes such as burglary became the business of the FBI.

18.   Instead, the crime has become one of the enduring literary images of black America.

19.   Its shrewd central theme depicts how quickly a crime, especially one with racial overtones, becomes political fodder.

20.   Juvenile crime is fast becoming an attractive issue for ambitious politicians across the political spectrum to exploit, usually with facile but marketable sound-bite solutions.