It provides an excuse: "How can we be expected to control crime when movie makers are giving the public bad ideas?"
There are better ways to control crime than by offering dictatorship.
Rather, residents are simply trying to find a way to control crime.
These campaigns are not concerned to control serious crime.
If you want to control crime, you've got to put your money into rehabilitation and prevention.
"But it happens to be true that in this environment it is harder to control crime."
Most important, it does not work to control crime.
The subway became a symbol of the city's inability to control crime.
The eyes, ears, information and influence of the people control crime.
What the twenty-seven members had finally done was to control crime.