crime wave 
noun
A sudden increase in the number of crimes committed in a country or area: officials blamed the crime wave on economic shortages...
- The area has become the target of a sudden crime wave.
- Truth be told, the Society would have placed someone in the area to stem the crime wave.
- This crime wave happened during a period of economic recession with high inflation and increasing unemployment.
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- pickpocket
- pickpocketry
- pickpole
- pickproof
- pickpurse
- Pick's body
- Pick's disease
- pickshaft
- picksome
- pick someone's brains (or brain)
- pick someone's pockets
- pick someone/thing off
- pick someone/thing out
- pick someone/thing to pieces (or apart)
- pick someone up
- pick something clean
- pick something out of a hat
- pick something over (or pick through)
- pick something up
- Pick's syndrome
- pickthank
- Pickt-hatch
- picktooth
- pick up