1.   A supposed crime wave is sweeping the land.

2.   He concludes that changes in genetic factors obviously can not explain the crime wave.

3.   He was part of a crime wave that shot up a house, robbed some one and then killed some one else.

4.   Larger cities have been the worst hit by the crime wave.

5.   More police officers are being brought in to help tackle the current crime wave.

6.   On Wednesday, he said he will help Maskhadov fight a postwar crime wave.

7.   The crime wave that spurred them has been falling steadily in times of greater economic prosperity.

8.   The election-year crime wave is starting in Congress.

9.   The experts believe they know the causes of the crime wave but they cannot agree on a cure.