1.   Street crime is becoming a major problem.

2.   Violent crime is becoming a major problem.

3.   Rising crime has become a key election issue.

4.   Although such crimes are becoming more common in Europe, the willingness to commit them is still often seen as an influence seeping over from the United States.

5.   But crime has become so widespread that the populace has begun clamoring for both efficiency and restraint.

6.   But in the place of war, crime has become a standard way of life in much of Guatemala.

7.   But, he pointed out, Bello had never been jailed and his crimes were becoming more serious.

8.   Committing crimes for petty cash became a way of life.

9.   Crime has become a highly emotional issue among many whites here, even though blacks are overwhelmingly represented among the victims of violence.

10.   Crime has become an obsession in the new South Africa.