31.   As in many other states, a robust national economy has helped state lawmakers create jobs, improve schools and reduce crime.

32.   At that time he promised to improve public schools, reduce crime and reform the welfare system and civil justice systems.

33.   Based on statistics alone, several of these cities have surpassed New York City in reducing crime.

34.   A crime bill is a pre-election ritual, meant not to reduce crime but to give politicians something to parade before their voters.

35.   A hostile leadership, he said, might have refused to cooperate with him when he restructured the department to reduce crime.

36.   A significant point of dispute between Harvard and Arcangeli was whether APD supervisors ordered or encouraged unfounding cases to reduce reported crime.

37.   A recent Rand study found that mandatory minimum sentences are far less effective than drug treatment in reducing crime.

38.   A state database of felons wrongly included dozens of people whose crimes were reduced to misdemeanors.

39.   All of those areas have been successful in using private security guards to reduce street crime, he said.

40.   Allen is campaigning on his state record of cutting taxes and reducing crime, trimming state agencies and attracting new business.