Yes. The police can definitely help them by nicking those petty thieves.

对。警察绝对会帮他们抓住那些小偷。

Dr. King was fatally shot by petty thief and virulent racist James Earl Ray.

他受到致命的枪击，凶手是小偷，也是怀有敌意的种族主义者詹姆斯 厄尔 雷(James Earl Ray)。

He entered jail as a petty thief.

他作为小偷进了监狱。

He hoped it would be the last place that a petty thief would look in a quick search.

他希望这将是小偷在快速搜索时最不会看到的地方。

There followed a time of scrapes, when he hopped trains as a refugee, shoeless and starving, and became a petty thief, running from the police.

之后，他经历了一段艰难时期，他以难民的身份扒着火车，赤脚挨饿，甚至沦落成一个被警察四处追捕的小偷。

Petty thieves are treated as deviant in a way that corporate criminals are not, even though they both steal from other people.

小偷被视为离经叛道的行为，而企业罪犯则不然，尽管他们都从他人那里偷东西。

Okay, I'm gonna have to conduct a full scale investigation to see which of you is the petty thief who ate all my trail mix.

好吧，我将不得不进行全面调查，看看你们中的哪一个是吃掉我所有混合果仁的小偷。