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Sound
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verb
To remove the criminal status of a reported crime, typically due to insufficient evidence or to artificially reduce crime statistics
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, law-enforcement
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From de- + crime.
