Criminal intends to take over half of city events (9)

I believe the answer is:

incidents

'events' is the definition.
(incident is a kind of event)

'criminal intends to take over half of city' is the wordplay.
'criminal' indicates anagramming the letters.
'to take over' is an insertion indicator.
'half of' suggests halving the letters.
'intends' with letters rearranged gives 'indents'.
'city' halved is 'ci'.
'indents' placed around 'ci' is 'INCIDENTS'.

(Another definition for incidents that I've seen is " Things that happen".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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