Officers are not unwilling to go after the low-level criminal, but these arrests shouldn't simply satisfy a production schedule or risk lives.

There are more than 22,300 drug offenders in the state's prisons today, most of whom are low-level criminals with no history of violence.

Hundreds of low-level criminals were freed each year.

In the midst of this crime wave, Russian prisons have become dangerously overcrowded with ordinary murderers, car thieves and low-level criminals.

These low-level criminals give information for pay or for some sort of favor.

And they have imposed shocking penalties on low-level nonviolent criminals.

Probably at this stage in my career I should stick to the low-level criminals, like shoplifters and drunk drivers.

She also outlined efforts to deal with chronic low-level criminals who escape with light sentences, and low pay for court-appointed lawyers.

Johnny Arnold, a low-level criminal is charged with the crime.

Mr. Giuliani said that if elected mayor, he would step up arrests of such low-level criminals as minor drug dealers and aggressive "squeegee" men.