noncriminal
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noncriminals
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This isn’t a novel finding, but it shows how deporting noncriminal immigrants is economically counterproductive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
He wants to see better and faster response and intervention for noncriminal, disruptive behavior such as cars doing doughnuts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
His dad, Joseph Bankman, worked on a range of FTX matters, and his mom, Barbara Fried, once called herself her son’s “partner in crime of the noncriminal sort.”
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2023
For regular drivers, a violation would be considered a noncriminal traffic infraction and would count as a moving violation.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
Bias incidents, on the other hand, are noncriminal acts, defined by SB 5427 as hostile expressions of animus toward another person that relate to the person’s actual or perceived membership in a protected class.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
He and others in the administration have pushed back on the idea that agents are going after noncriminals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025
Mr. Abbott has characterized critics’ concerns as “fear mongering,” and said that the law does not pose problems for noncriminals.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2018
In some facilities, immigrants with criminal records were housed with noncriminals, the report said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2017
For instance, one study compared the cholesterol measurements of nearly 80,000 Swedes who’d enrolled in a health-screening project against police records and found that violent criminals had significantly lower cholesterol levels than noncriminals.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2011
But lots of violent men don't have the defective gene, while many noncriminals do.
From Time Magazine Archive
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