commit crime

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Their ability to produce realistic text, images, audio and video has prompted concern about their capacity to steal jobs, influence elections and commit crime.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2024

“It just extends the power of police — not just over people who commit crime, but over everyone,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2023

But what about screening job applicants or predicting how likely someone is to commit crime?

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2023

Studies by prison reform advocates and academics have shown that visitation and phone calls with loved ones decrease the likelihood that a person will commit crime again.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2023

Does it become you, a clergyman and a magistrate, to ask me to commit crime?'

From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by Holyoake, George Jacob