21.   Officers think the bikes will make them less conspicuous, and so help them catch people such as petty thieves.

22.   Petty thieves have it rougher.

23.   Petty thieves and minor drug offenders.

24.   Q. What are the scams used by pickpockets, purse snatchers, and other petty thieves?

25.   Such laws turn petty thieves and troubled adolescents into self-absorbed, manipulative, sometimes-violent adults whose only skill is breaking the law.

26.   Whole neighborhoods can fall into blight and decay, a world in which petty thieves, public drunks and drug dealers have the upper hand on the streets.

27.   While Vaughan went off to the Army, Little went off to prison after becoming a burglar and petty thief.

28.   With a dozen arrests on her record, the petty thief had spent a lot more time around jails, holding cells and hoodlums than politicians.

29.   Young men outside an apartment building across the street peddle rocks of cocaine to petty thieves, neighborhood hookers and commuting suburbanites.

30.   Others were petty thieves.