71.   And so we grow more and more fearful, even as the crime rate declines.

72.   And that, researchers say, affects everything from air quality to energy costs, from obesity to crime rates.

73.   And we have reopened the federal death house after almost a decade of steadily falling crime rates.

74.   And, like many other cities, it has benefited from tumbling crime rates.

75.   As crime rates among juveniles rise around the nation, more cities are enacting curfews.

76.   As crime rates locally and nationally have continued to drop in recent years, so has concern over personal safety.

77.   As crime rates plummeted, New Yorkers tended to overlook the complaints about brutality and other forms of police misconduct.

78.   As the national crime rate has risen, so have the number of neighborhood barricades.

79.   Asbury Park is plagued by a high crime rate.

80.   Aside from the terrible crime rate, lousy schools and sapping heat, Florida is a great state in which to raise kids.