1.   New figures show the burglary rate in the region has risen five-fold in some areas since the Conservatives came to power in nineteen seventy nine.

2.   As a result, the burglary rate in the United States is now well below that of many Western European countries.

3.   In another room, they watch as brainstorming police chiefs, speaking from multiple video monitors, grill a precinct commander about a rising burglary rate.

4.   Kurdyla said plainclothes detectives and extra officers assigned on overtime had helped lower the burglary rate.