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They often disappear and slide into petty crime or slavery.
How did you go from petty crime to robbing cash machines?
Their revolt from society manifested itself through petty crime and delinquency.
Even if that common ground is petty crime and eating ass.
For some fans, passion for the film leads to petty crime.
Lakdim was known to police for petty crime and drug dealing.
Neely dropped out of school and got caught up in petty crime.
In reality, it is a city of petty crime and pub fights.
At 14, I got into my first fight and went into petty crime.
Unexpectedly, the 2020 presidential campaign is drilling down on petty crime and homelessness.
In 217, in a press conference, Duterte announced a crackdown on petty crime.
Given the expense of a heavy habit, petty crime is an obvious income source.
Jihadism and petty crime were so intertwined that some used the term "gangster Islam".
These days Bobby has a heavy interest in petty crime; Terry works menial jobs.
The kingdom's embassy in Ankara has warned of rising petty crime aimed at Saudi citizens.
But the gangs emerging today are less organised and more prone to commit petty crime.
Lee, his older brother, is a drifter with a penchant for dogfighting and petty crime.
The result, they say, has been a visible reduction in drug use and petty crime.
They wrote about their frustrations with petty crime and the slow response of the Met.
Rejecting the lessons of chastisement, he embarks on a regime of petty crime and seduction.
Ours was not a petty crime—for a bunch of teenagers, it was pretty sophisticated.
Although fatal robbery attempts against tourists are rare in Buenos Aires, petty crime is common.
Petty crime in the neighborhood, an old miner's settlement, has crept up, too, locals report.
He was known to local authorities as a repeat offender involved in petty crime and drugs.
He turned to petty crime and spent his teenage years in and out of reform schools.
Crime is down, even petty crime—at least, that's what I read in my neighbor's newspaper.
In 2009, it was he who offered TeeCee an alternative to petty crime and territorial warfare.
Petty crime: Last week, our reporter asked London residents to share their experiences with minor crimes.
Molins said the Marseille suspects met in 2015, while sharing a prison cell for petty crime.
I know you're thinking I'm just looking for ways to intellectualize petty crime, but fuck it.
Bouhlel is known to police for petty crime and violence but is not suspected of Islamist militancy.
Suddenly, she had no reason to behave herself, and she decided to commit one last petty crime.
But what would have happened had I taken up a life of petty crime after being hired?
"I mean, I see people post these long diatribes about the petty crime and homelessness," Ms. Coles said.
Like other addicts here, he turns to petty crime to make quick money and spends it all on paco.
But, is it fair to apply ban literally everyone with a conviction, especially if it's over a petty crime?
He had a history of petty crime, including a six-month suspended sentence for assaulting a motorist this year.
The League campaigned in the roughest parts of Milan and Turin, where newcomers are often involved in petty crime.
One brother gets his shot at the big leagues, the other falls back into menial jobs and petty crime.
Rabbi Heller said he hoped his synagogue was merely a victim of petty crime as opposed to a target.
Their tale of four kids in the hood doesn't rely on stale stereotypes about tough kids and petty crime, either.
People walking by just figured that the glass was left from a petty crime, from something stolen inside a car.
Are the Crime Preventers simply volunteer citizens organized by the government to battle petty crime and safeguard the exercise of democracy?
"I know Pauline isn't from around here but she's dealing with the issues that are important like petty crime," said Browner.
Coquillat said the 25-year-old man was known to authorities for petty crime and had spent some time in prison.
A police source told Reuters that the attacker was a 31-year-old Franco-Tunisian known to police for petty crime.
Petty crime is common in Jakarta, a teeming city of 10 million people, but violent crime including armed robbery is rare.
Those 1993 songs are full of crime—petty crime, violent crime, crime that isn't catalyst for personal growth or narrative motion.
Belgium's federal prosecutor has said the fugitive relied on a network of friends and relatives involved in drug dealing and petty crime.
They fear petty crime will flourish, and that there could even be turf wars over who controls the poppy and marijuana fields.
Too often for those addicted to opioids, the revolving doors between petty crime and jail stop revolving when they die from drugs.
The practice has also been criticized for a widespread a lack of algorithmic transparency, and for giving disparate attention to petty crime.
Dalton Mtengwa, from Oldham, is 24 and credits converting to Islam last February for saving him from a life of petty crime.
A 28-year-old Belgian national of Moroccan descent, he had been in and out of prison several times for petty crime.
Mr. Satchu estimated that at least $5 million was lost every Monday because of interruptions, closed businesses, property destruction and petty crime.
Brunner, who'd moved to California to work as a librarian, turned easily to petty crime and supported Manson while he recruited followers.
During and after the Manson trial, other members of the Family began a stint of petty crime, including robbery and identity theft.
Because to go to the police, she said, is to risk being ridiculed for reporting a "petty crime with no known perpetrator".
Mr. Traylor, 37, slept not far from this spot during a five-year binge of alcoholism, drug abuse, petty crime and homelessness.
Reduced levels of policing (because of budget cuts) lead to a rise in petty crime that, he fears, may be blamed on Muslims.
Merah, later killed in a shootout with police officers, came from a dysfunctional family, plagued by domestic violence, petty crime and drug trafficking.
The three issues that business travelers are most likely to encounter are petty crime and theft, medical and health situations, and bad weather.
Unlike in many other countries, in Cuba, US Embassy employees didn't have to worry much about terrorist attacks, kidnapping or even petty crime.
Molins confirms the attacker is Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, known to police for petty crime and violence but is not suspected of Islamist militancy.
After a half-hour of raucous freedom and petty crime, Barbara is busted and seemingly framed for a murder committed by her lowlife pals.
If you live in London and have had issues with the police's response to petty crime, I would like to hear about your experience.
It goes without saying that Gioia Tauro, a beaten-down zone of poverty and petty crime, is no place for such a noble animal.
Eatherly, who struggled with mental illness and petty crime after his discharge from the military, professes immense guilt for his role in the bombing.
Many are there for social reasons -- orphaned or abandoned street children turning to petty crime through hunger or teenage girls who have had illegal abortions.
The New York Times got a massive dose of British humour when it posted a tweet asking for people's experiences of petty crime in London.
A senior interior ministry official told Reuters there would be "a policeman every 20 meters" in host cities to prevent petty crime and drunken fights.
Residents of the 10-story complex built in the 1970s say elevators often break down and that drug dealing and petty crime are growing problems.
Mills, 51, stands squarely athwart the chasm, as a self-described "former knucklehead" raised on conflicting doses of petty crime and a stern motherly hand.
Darryl Dent, a black inmate who, like Mr. Kelly, has an extensive history of petty crime and is severely mentally ill, was not so fortunate.
Mr. Amri, who had a history of petty crime and used several aliases in his odyssey around Europe, applied for asylum in Germany in April.
Prepare for a shocking amount of petty (and not-so-petty) crime, the most earnest friendships possible, and a few murder-free surprises along the way.
Youngsters are induced to engage in petty crime or offer sexual services in return for false promises to speed up their journey to Europe's wealthy heart.
It triggered an insecurity complex in Bieber so nagging he went on a petty crime spree that has perhaps permanently soured him in the public eye.
He overcame an early life of petty crime and a prison term in San Quentin to develop a rugged, outlaw image that helped sell millions of records.
Scarcity fuels desperation and the desperate turn to petty crime, or dealing and using drugs, mostly "shabu", the methamphetamine Duterte says could destroy a generation of Filipinos.
Scott's history of petty crime (and specifically unpaid child support) surfaced in the media, and Slager claimed Scott had seized hold of a Taser and threatened him.
Security has also been a growing concern, both because of the fear of a terrorist attack and rampant local petty crime that can often have fatal consequences.
A local businessman, who declined to be named because of the sensitivities involved, said one of the consequences of the Mafia's decline was a rise in petty crime.
And reports of petty crime are fairly common in Rome (and in cities like Barcelona and Paris), especially of pickpockets preying on Chinese tourists known for carrying cash.
Eliminating poverty in the Philippines by addressing inequality, improving education and creating jobs would do far more to stem drug use and petty crime than assassinating supposed violators.
He acknowledged that some of the reserve's young people, along with white youths in the area, passed too much of their time with drinking, drugs and petty crime.
One of the first on record is the Bow Street Horse Patrol in London, established in the mid-18th century to ward off petty crime on country roads.
One of the first on record is the London Bow Street Horse Patrol, established in the mid-18th century to patrol country roads to ward off petty crime.
Yet the critics of these policies from the left and the right frequently miss the fact that petty crime enforcement benefits minority communities much more than anyone else.
French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb confirmed Friday afternoon that the attacker was 26, had acted alone and was known to authorities for petty crime and possession of drugs.
But several legal experts and scholars, likening the offense to a petty crime or the crossing of a red light, said that the rule is little enforced there.
The third was a gang of young Moroccans living in and around Madrid and engaged in drugs and petty crime—just the sort of delinquents depicted by Mr Roy.
Legal highs have changed the fabric of the city, say local politicians and charities: begging and petty crime has become more prevalent as users try to feed their addiction.
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Wade, and Freedom of Choice, included abortion-rights sentiments along with details about dysfunctional parents, reform school, petty crime, drug abuse, alcoholism, an abusive husband, an attempted suicide and lesbianism.
And to make a successful film, you have to love the people you're filming, so I thought of a film with just dancers and in a context of petty crime.
Early scenes show Lolita resorting to petty crime to support her family and butting heads with her strict mother (Nia Long), a compelling character who could use more screen time.
"One of the sub-categories that Vienna does really well in is the prevalence of petty crime ... It's proven to be one of the safest cities in Europe," she said.
Brittany Bronson Las Vegas — MARYLAND PARKWAY, a street in central Las Vegas best known for its gritty shopping centers and petty crime, is now home to a brightly lit campaign office.
"Abdeslam relied on a large network of friends and relatives that already existed for drug dealing and petty crime to keep him in hiding," said Frederic Van Leeuw, Belgium's federal prosecutor.
In effect, the heroin user is protected from the ills of an illicit marketplace, such as fatal overdoses, committing petty crime to get a fix or exposure to blood-borne diseases.
Previously social-service agencies used a "staircase" model: to qualify for a subsidised flat, homeless people first had to control their behavioural problems (such as addiction, petty crime or mental illness).
Although petty crime is high and rising and the rate of serious violence against civilians is worsening, it's far lower than comparable nations consumed by drugs, such as Mexico or Afghanistan.
You could be on the list for committing petty crime, living on the streets, keeping the wrong company, or getting high from the cheap drug rugby – a Filipino version of sniffing glue.
"There are a lot of problems around here," said Karaman, 66, complaining of petty crime by gangs in the area, where many residents live as squatters in aging buildings left to decay.
Instead, they fixate on images of apparent success sent back via social media — even if those images often mask a grittier and more dangerous reality that includes exploitation, petty crime and prostitution.
Several drinkers in The Eagle talked of petty crime and reckless driving: bangers with Polish plates bombing along the Fen roads, their drivers clipping the boggy curbs and flipping into drainage ditches.
He had a history of petty crime, including theft, going back to 2010, and he received a six-month suspended sentence in March for assaulting a driver during an altercation in January.
They got referrals from teachers, school nurses and counsellors, taking in kids from the age of 14 who didn't see themselves as needing treatment but who had problems with drugs or petty crime.
Young people who want to follow the rules instead find themselves practicing evasion or lying, and their employers risk heavy fines and slip into petty crime themselves when hiring people without legal status.
She and Luca had a fashion project to do, and, instead of just designing pocket quotes, Luca makes our heroine go on a sprawling adventure including Black Panther, petty crime, and zoo animals.
Instead of being traumatised as navy men shepherding the young Doc to prison for a petty crime, they are now Marines, and "Last Flag Flying" reveals that they fought in the jungle together.
Jones lives with his wife and two children a few doors down from the 75-year-old woman who was injured, in a predominately Hispanic neighborhood of small homes with sporadic petty crime.
In a move to defuse tensions, King Abdullah ordered the government on Thursday to draft a general amnesty law that pardons several thousand people jailed for convictions ranging from petty crime to embezzlement.
Alone, on their own, on the streets, with no place to sleep or eat, they turn to petty crime, dealing drugs, sleeping with someone in order to have a roof over their head.
A comic montage shows a couple of stoners going on a spree of petty crime, drug use and general life wastage because of Saul's offer of a 50 percent discount on legal services.
"It's because there is a lack of work," he added, saying there were numerous cases of people who were so dependent on the leaves, sold in packs, that they turned to petty crime.
Although he had a record of petty crime, violence and drugs, when the police investigated the complaints they usually found them groundless and that Mr. Nuttall was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
The documents indicate the role that Amazon played in helping to organize the sting operation in Hayward, and the amount of planning that went into patrolling and potentially prosecuting package theft—a petty crime.
Begbie's son is uninterested in joining him in the family business of thieving and petty crime, and the sum of money Mark left Spud all went to drugs, as has every sum Spud's had since.
"There is no evidence that these laws have decreased shoplifting or decriminalized petty crime at all," said Ryan Sullivan, an assistant professor at the Nebraska College of Law who studies the impact of shoplifting laws.
Often, according to experts who have studied the phenomenon, future militants start with petty crime and then search for an identity as a way to frame their illicit activity, or to atone for past misdeeds.
At the same time, it short-circuits some of the individual arcs' ideas, including a running theme of characters using petty crime (vandalism for Buster, theft for Qualls' character) to get back at systems they resent.
Image courtesy of the artist The show, for Sparrow, is not only a way to address this issue but also to take a humorous look at this petty crime and its place in our wider culture.
Jambon also outlined plans to "clean up" the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek, part of which he said was driven by an illegal economy of guns, drugs and petty crime that could be used to fund extremist activities.
As a newly arrived college student in "The Freshman," Matthew Broderick tripped over an unconscious man on a staircase between the upper and lower concourses, then watched fearfully as vignettes of petty crime played out before him.
Better policing alone cannot curb a major crime wave; though New York's crime-fighting success is often attributed to an imaginative crackdown on petty crime in the 230s, the city's long economic boom probably played a bigger part.
In cities that have operated using a "broken windows" ideology—including New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and many others—police are explicitly encouraged to look for and harshly penalize petty crime that may go unnoticed in other neighborhoods.
They once walked this boardwalk, eating shaved ice and posing for selfies, but fled at the first sign of commercial depreciation, abandoning it all to indigence and petty crime, and, at last, to the King of Retired Amusements.
Researchers say a high proportion of juvenile crimes in cities are committed by children of migrant workers, who often face widespread discrimination in terms of access to schools, health care and employment, and are pushed into petty crime.
On top of rising street violence and petty crime in Rio, a transcript was made public in France on Wednesday in which a French intelligence official said a Brazilian Islamist had been plotting to attack the French Olympic delegation.
Thursday's expulsion marks the first such move by India and comes at a time when some of the country's local media have been picking on the Rohingya as troublemakers, engaged in everything from petty crime to acts of terrorism.
Snatching the two-cent stamp was always a symbolic goal for Ray; raiding Emmit's safe deposit box or blackmailing him with a sex tape were examples of the "Fargo" phenomenon by which a petty crime rages out of control.
Marvel's Spider-Man smartly weaves in moments where Pete doesn't have a lot to do and goes on patrol, which can mean scanning for petty crime, taking some pictures, or following through on one of several side or collection quests.
The full implications of this come clear in the book's most sustained narrative, a story Louis tells late in the novel about Eddy's cousin Sylvain, whose short, harsh life of petty crime arouses both dismay and pride in his family.
He grew up in Armenia, Colombia, went to the US in the 1960s, got involved in petty crime (selling marijuana, auto theft), and was busted and kicked out of the US. By his mid-20s, his life was going nowhere.
The profile that has emerged of the terrorists involved in recent attacks is of young men, born in Europe, who grew up in poor, Muslim-majority immigrant neighborhoods and who had engaged in petty crime and drug dealing before turning to terrorism.
It was there that RZA became involved in petty crime and drug dealing before ultimately being charged with attempted murder, a topic he touches on his book The Tao of Wu. RZA was eventually acquitted and has said that moment changed him forever.
It was weird spot, nestled right between Chicago's Boystown neighborhood (read: super-hunks in jockstraps and eight-feet tall divas dancing in windows) and Wrigleyville neighborhood (read: an open-air containment center where Cubs fans can commit petty crime against one another without consequence).
The invented character of Fred Engelholm, known as Smokey, is a black man nearing the end of a sentence for a petty crime — stealing two apples — that under Jim Crow in Tennessee led to three years on a prison farm and a chain gang.
The invented character of Fred Engelholm, known as Smokey, is a black man nearing the end of a sentence for a petty crime — stealing two apples — that under Jim Crow in Tennessee led to three years on a prison farm and a chain gang.
On first impression the camp is a little menacing, the smell of marijuana hangs in the air and residents warn of thieves and petty crime they blame on new arrivals - people who have moved in to occupy shacks left by families who have received new homes.
Peter likes to bring Spider-Cop out (or rather refer to himself in the third person as Spider-Cop and narrate his own adventures in the Spider-Cop voice) when he's fighting petty crime, much to the embarrassment of Yuri Watanabe, his only friend in the NYPD.
While ECU-911 was sold to the public as a way to get a grip on dizzying murder rates and drug-related petty crime, it also served Mr. Correa's authoritarian streak, supporting his feared National Intelligence Secretariat, or Senain, according to a former head of the group.
The prosecution's case against Mr. McKenzie hinges largely on Mr. Pender's credibility, which defense lawyers have tried to undermine, arguing that Mr. Pender has a strong incentive to lie to avoid a long prison term and has a long history of petty crime and marijuana dealing.
For example, in the case of Michael Brown in Ferguson, better training may have pushed former police officer Darren Wilson to not stop Brown for a petty crime like jaywalking — and, as a result, avoid the escalating circumstances that led Wilson to shoot Brown to death.
In a global moment of conflict and confusion, during our ongoing confrontation with the risk of great power in the hands of small men, at the end of every familiar thing ending around us, there is something insufficient about the simple facts of a petty crime like this.
And even a fully funded and harsher version of the French intelligence and security network probably wouldn't be able to catch people who jump from petty crime and violence to terrorist action quickly, like the Nice attacker apparently did, with few or no red flags for terrorism watchers.
There's a kind of doubled vision here: We see Don Achille as Elena and Lila see him, as a fairy tale ogre who goes around stealing dolls and putting them in a black bag — but we also see him as he is in "reality," as a petty crime boss.
Monica C. Bell, a legal sociologist who is about to join the faculty of Yale Law School, studied poor mothers in Washington and found that even when they distrusted the police they were likely to call them when their children were truant or addicted or seemed drawn to petty crime.
At a time when policing had been reduced, in many American cities, to having wary patrolmen drive around in squad cars, waiting for a radio call telling them that something bad had already happened, the new theory insisted on an aggressive pursuit of petty crime, before it could get to be big crime.
"As more private actors are starting to enter space, and as we see them staying for any kind of duration on a commercial space station, then we're going to have to look at how we address criminal jurisdiction for even petty crime," Jessica Sweeney Noble, a space lawyer for Nanoracks, tells The Verge.
It is important to recall that last year's ramping up of policing in the subway was explicitly tied to a campaign against what the MTA has attempted to brand as the scourge of fare jumping as if this everyday petty "crime" was somehow to blame for the overall fiscal crisis of the MTA.
In the past year alone, there have been many successful podcasts, like the LA Times' "Dirty John," which has recently been picked up by Bravo to become a series starring TV royalty Connie Britton, as well as NPR's S-Town, a "Southern gothic" involving petty crime, suicide, and murder within a small Alabama town.
The excesses of social liberalism have given us various forms of social breakdown that can be seen at their most extreme in America: record levels of broken families; an epidemic of drugs, particularly opioids; millions of men who have dropped out of the labour force and taken to a life of petty crime and binge-watching TV. It's unfair to blame these problems on social liberalism alone.
We follow Theo over the course of the next decade or so as he goes through his Great Expectations phase (plucked out of obscurity by a remote but perhaps benevolent older woman for whose children he seems to be fated), his Oliver Twist phase (a life of petty crime and deep homoerotic friendship), his Old Curiosity Shop phase (living with an avuncular older man in a quirky but Edenic antiques shop), always surrounded by characters who are ostensibly American but speak with unmistakably posh British cadences.

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