21.   Take away the police from London or Berlin, and see how quickly the crime rate would soar.

22.   The country has a low crime rate that is the envy of most other countries.

23.   The crime rate has gone up.

24.   The crime rate in the area is relatively low.

25.   The crime rate in this city is frightening.

26.   The crime rate just keeps going up.

27.   The governor argues that locking up criminals has reduced the crime rate.

28.   These predictions have yet to materialise, and youth crime rates have been on the Decline for several years.

29.   They have seen crime rates and their feelings of physical insecurity rise, and their overall quality of life plummet.