1.   But violent juvenile crime has soared.

2.   By some measures, juvenile crime is soaring.

3.   Crime has soared to such an extent that an ATM machine was stolen from the fourth floor of a police headquarters.

4.   Crime soared, and every other week seemed to bring a municipal strike.

5.   Crime soared.

6.   Crime has soared, parks are strewn with litter, squatters build shacks where they can get away with it, parking is difficult and companies are moving north.

7.   As in other former Soviet republics, crime has soared since the former communist regime toppled.

8.   But crime has soared in low-income suburbs plagued by unemployment and other social ills.