crime fighting
Combating illegal activity
Crime fighting is the work of preventing, investigating, or stopping criminal activity.
The term evokes a certain heroism—police officers, detectives, and vigilantes all engage in crime fighting, but so do prosecutors and policy makers.
Often appears as a compound adjective: crime-fighting efforts, a crime-fighting superhero.
- arrestSeize by law
- citizen's arrestCivilian detaining suspected criminal
- vigilanteExtralegal justice-seeker
- patrolRegular surveillance route
- beat copOfficer assigned regular route
squad car · policing · badge · body cam · criminal profiling · forensic analysis · neighborhood watch · thin blue line · undercover operations · surveillance · community policing · evidence collection · policewoman · prosecution · chase · criminal law · Batman · SWAT teams
- heroismbravery, valor, hero, courage, heroism
- superheroesSuperman, Batman, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, Thor
- vigilantismvigilante, vigilantism, lynch mob, lynching, mob justice
crime fightingcriminal activity
lawbreaking · criminality · crime · lawlessness · offending
crime fightingaiding and abetting
Helping another commit crime
complicity · turning a blind eye · looking the other way · permissiveness · inaction
crime fightingvillainy
Criminal or evil behavior
organized crime · racketeering · gangsterism · terrorism · criminal conspiracy