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- FBI Congressional Testimony-Terrorism and the No-Fly List
Congressional Testimony
Timothy J. Healy
Director, Terrorist Screening Center
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Statement Before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
March 10, 2010
Good morning Chairman Lieberman, Ranking Member Collins, and [More...]
- Do Prisons Reduce Crime? Crime News
Crime in America.Net staff
We have been in and out of prisons hundreds of times. You can’t walk out of a prison without feeling that they are massive wastes of humanity. [More...]
- Most Women are Victimized by Someone they Know: Crime Prevention
Crime in America.Net Staff
We get lots of inquiries from people as to their chances for violent crime. Many come from women who, according to research, have higher rates of fear [More...]
- Crime News: National Study Shows Reverse in Decade-Long Declines in Teen Abuse of Drugs
Gentlereaders: One of the astounding findings from the last 10 to 20 years is the decrease in criminality across a wide variety of measures from reported crimes to crime surveys [More...]
- 11 Percent of Prison Inmates Get Drug Treatment: Crime Statistics
Gentlepeople: The report below states that 11 percent of prison inmates who need it receive drug treatment. It repeats findings of earlier studies.
The same dilemma exists for inmates with mental health [More...]
- More on Marijuana and Crime: Crime Statistics
It was never our intention to take on marijuana as an issue. We stated in a post on society controlling itself (rather than the criminal justice system doing it) that [More...]
- Crime Statistics–Most Dangerous Cities–Most Miserable Cities
Crime Statistics: The demand for information comparing one city to another is one of the internet’s most popular crime-related requests. But, as always, we direct users to http://crimeinamerica.net/city-crime-rates-top-ten-cities/ on the [More...]
- Crime News:Two-thirds of human trafficking victims were age 17 or younger
Crime News: Two-thirds of human trafficking victims were age 17 or younger.
94 percent of the victims were female.
Almost two-thirds of sex trafficking victims were Hispanic.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the [More...]
- More than 1.5 million American children have fathers in prison: Crime News
Crime News:
On December 15, 2009, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and Attorney General Eric Holder cohosted a Fatherhood Town Hall Meeting at Morehouse College in Atlanta, [More...]
- AMBER Alert Program Will Expand to Mexico-Helps Recover Nearly 500 Children-Crime News
Crime News: Launched on January 13, 1996, the AMBER Alert system issues media alerts on radio, television, highway signs, wireless devices such as mobile phones, and over the Internet when [More...]
- “Please Rob Me” and the Loss of Privacy: Crime News
Gentlereaders: in an earlier post we asked if "Technology Leading to 3.4 Million People Being Stalked?" See http://crimeinamerica.net/2010/01/12/is-technology-leadingto3-4-million-people-being-stalked-in-the-united-states/.
We stated that we now have a day and age where people can be stalked [More...]
- Budget Cuts Hurting Justice System: Crime News
It’s hard for the average citizen to understand the budget situation facing state and local governments. There are two things to consider:
Budget cuts are the number one story within the [More...]
- Teen Dating Violence: Crime News
Gentlereaders: As the father of two girls, you take the subject of violence against women very seriously. There is simply too much of it. Please see the "Crimes Against Women" [More...]
- Do Decreases in Child Abuse Explain Decreases in Violent Crime? Crime News
In January we posted an article on why crime rates were falling. We stated that there was no universal explanation for crime rates regardless as to whether they were rising [More...]
- Children of Alcoholics Week: Crime News
February 14–20, 2010
Children of Alcoholics Week celebrates the recovery of children who have received the help they needed to recover from the effects of parental alcohol and drug addiction, and [More...]
- New White House Policy on Substance Abuse: Crime News
Demand reduction policies in the past have focused primarily on prevention, intervention, and treatment. All remain key elements of the anti-drug effort. However, under the Obama Administration, the Office of [More...]
- One in Four Girls Were Involved in Serious Fights: Crime Statistics
National Survey Indicates One in Four Girls Aged 12-17 Were Involved in Serious Fights or Attacks in the Past Year
Prevalence of violent acts differs by family income, school attendance, and [More...]
- Crime Rankings for Cities: A Fair Comparison? Crime Statistics
There is a recent article in the New York Times addressing whether or not officers and command staff accurately recorded crime data.
The article by William Rashbaum states:
“More than a hundred [More...]
- Monitoring the Future of Drug Use:Survey of Students and Young Adults: Crime Statistics
Monitoring the Future: A Mix of Good News, Troubling Trends--Results of the 2009--Monitoring the Future (MTF) study: Show decreases among some grades in the use of cocaine, methamphetamine, and hallucinogens. The [More...]
- Crime News: Do Inmates Convicted of Murder Commit Violent Crime While in Prison?
Crime News: Sorensen and Cunningham examined the characteristics and disciplinary data of approximately 70,000 inmates in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) in 2002and 2003 to study the relationship between [More...]
- Mentally Ill Offenders Return to Prison Faster: Crime Statistics
Cloyes, Wong, Latimer, and Abarca conducted a study of recidivism among offenders with serious mental illness (SMI). Their study was designed to identify SMI offenders and to calculate the time [More...]
- Big Drops in Child Sex and Physical Abuse: Crime News
Gentlereaders: The US Department of Health and Human Servicers reports considerable drops in child abuse, sexual child abuse and emotional abuse in their latest study.
There is little need for comment [More...]
- Crime News:Reduction of bullying in schools
Anti-bullying programs in schools are often effective, according to a new Campbell review
School bullying, increasingly a topic of both public concern and research efforts, has a serious impact on children [More...]
- Crime Statistics: City Homicide Rankings
Gentlereaders: The data presented below are offered from well known and respected criminologists using US Department of Justice funding. Their data is included in "City Crime Rates-Top Ten Cities" on this [More...]
- Crime News: Time to Legalize Marijuana?
We place our articles on a variety of internet and crime news sites. We find that there are professional and blog sites where we have wonderful conversations about the materials [More...]
- Crime Statistics: No Prison Sentences for Most Felony Convictions
We appreciate your opinions at http://crimeinamerica.net
Gentlereaders: A student was asking about incarceration in the United States. He is aware that the United States is the world’s leader in rates of [More...]
- Crime News: Geography and Public Safety
Crime News: The document discusses neighborhoods and the importance of geographic composition. It examines topics, definitions and technologies that demonstrate that neighborhoods matter. Articles bring the abstract idea of a neighborhood [More...]
- Crime Statistics:DWI Court Shows Promise
Executive Summary
In June 2007, the New York State Unified Court System launched hybrid DWI/drug courts in Erie and Niagara Counties to address the issue of persistent driving while intoxicated (DWI).
The [More...]
- Sex Offender Registries—Giving Citizens What they Want? Crime in America.Net
This question will be used as a discussion point for a class at an eastern university. Your opinions are welcomed.
Gentlereaders: The study below suggests that sex offender registries are not associated [More...]
- FBI and Domestic Terrorism-Senate Testimony
Robert S. Mueller, III
Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary
January 20, 2010
Good morning Chairman Leahy, Senator Sessions, and members of the Committee. I am pleased to [More...]
- Crime Prevention: FBI Issues Warnings Regarding Haitian Fraud Complaints
The FBI and the National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) have established a telephone hotline to report suspected Haitian earthquake relief fraud. The number is (866) 720-5721. The phone line [More...]
- Crime’s Up-What’s Wrong With My City? Crime in America.Net
We get requests from reporters to put crime rankings in perspective. So city “A” suffers from crime increases while other cities show declines. So what’s up with city “A,” they [More...]
- Crime News:Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities
Allen J. Beck, Paul Guerino, Paige M. Harrison
January 7, 2010 NCJ 228416
Presents data from the 2008-09 National Survey of Youth in Custody (NSYC), conducted in 195 juvenile confinement facilities between June [More...]
- Crime Statistics: FBI Releases Bank Crime Statistics
During the third quarter of 2009, there were 1,212 reported violations of the Federal Bank Robbery and Incidental Crimes Statue, a decrease from the 1,378 reported violations in the same [More...]
- Crime Statistics: Juvenile and Adult Incarceration– Declines Seem Inevitable
Gentlereaders: We previously reported that thirty-five of the fifty states are undergoing severe fiscal difficulties with the remainder restricting budgets as much as possible.
Considering this, it was inevitable that states [More...]
- Haitian Earthquake Relief Fraud Alert
The FBI today reminds Internet users who receive appeals to donate money in the aftermath of Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti to apply a critical eye and do their due diligence [More...]
- Is Technology Leading to 3.4 Million People Being Stalked?
Gentlereaders: We now have a day and age where people can be stalked via the Internet and GPS devices. Privacy may be a luxury of the past.
Did you ever Google [More...]
- Why are violent crime rates falling? Crime in America.Net
Gentlereaders: This is the title of an editorial in the Washington Post on Saturday, January 2, 2010. And as you can see from the national statistics on the bottom half [More...]
- Crime in Schools: Government or Parental Responsibility?
Guide Offers Communities Ways To Prevent and Respond to School Violence
Crime in America.Net, http://crimeinamerica.net
Gentlereaders: Everything you wanted to know about school violence including documentation of infamous school crime shootings are [More...]
- Police shootings:2009 a dangerous year for police
By COLLEEN LONG
The Associated Press
- Crime and Justice–Hampered by the Numbers
Crime in America.Net crime news.
Gentlereaders: In a previous post, we discussed juvenile arrest statistics and compared them to two national studies of crime; all suggest that crime rates and totals [More...]
- Juvenile Criminal Offenders-What Happened to the Predicted Crime Waves?
Crime news from Crime in America.Net
Gentlereaders: For those of us who have been in the criminal justice system for several decades or more, we’ve been exposed to a series of [More...]
- Crime News:Parole and Probation-One Out of Forty-five Adults Are Under Supervision
Crime News from Crime in America.Net
Gentlereaders: As you walk through a crowd in just about any major metropolitan area, you have a one on forty-five chance of being in the [More...]
- Computer Scams-Identity Theft-Crime News from the FBI
Crime news from Crime in America.Net
According to recent information from the Gallup Poll, ten percent of Americans state that they were the victim of identity theft or someone in their [More...]
- School Crime:10 percent of male students reported being threatened or injured with a weapon
Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2009
Presents data on crime and safety at school from the perspectives of students, teachers, and principals. A joint effort by the Bureau of Justice [More...]
- Sex Offenders:74 percent of contacted minors met internet sex offenders
Gentlereaders: There is widespread speculation regarding child sex predators on the internet. Some of the accounts seem to be purely sensational and exploitative.
The Library of Congress just released (October, 2009) [More...]
- Prison/Jail:1 in every 133 U.S. residents in prisons or local jails.
Gentlereaders: Thirty-five of the fifty states are undergoing severe fiscal difficulties with the remainder restricting budgets as much as possible. Considering this, it was inevitable that states would begin the [More...]
- Drug Addiction:Only Two of Twenty-five Million Drug Addicts Getting Treatment
Gentlereaders: The new officials at the Office of National Drug Control Policy state that only two of twenty-five million addicts receive drug treatment (this site offered similar research several weeks [More...]
- Death Penalty:Latest Data on Capitol Punishment
Gentlereaders: Two of us have witnessed executions. Regardless as to your views on capitol punishment, (most Americans support the process--research contained on this site) the process of execution is unbelievably time [More...]
- Criminal Offenders:GPS-Satellite Tracking of Criminal Offenders-New Articles
Gentlereaders: GPS or satellite tracking of offenders may be one of the most innovative methods of community supervision available. While far from foolproof, satellite tracking provides the incentive for many [More...]
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Congressional Testimony Timothy J. Healy Director, Terrorist Screening Center Federal Bureau of Investigation Statement Before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs March 10, 2010 Good morning Chairman Lieberman, Ranking Member Collins, and [More...]
Crime in America.Net staff We have been in and out of prisons hundreds of times. You can’t walk out of a prison without feeling that they are massive wastes of humanity. [More...]
Crime in America.Net Staff We get lots of inquiries from people as to their chances for violent crime. Many come from women who, according to research, have higher rates of fear [More...]
Gentlereaders: One of the astounding findings from the last 10 to 20 years is the decrease in criminality across a wide variety of measures from reported crimes to crime surveys [More...]
Gentlepeople: The report below states that 11 percent of prison inmates who need it receive drug treatment. It repeats findings of earlier studies. The same dilemma exists for inmates with mental health [More...]
It was never our intention to take on marijuana as an issue. We stated in a post on society controlling itself (rather than the criminal justice system doing it) that [More...]
Crime Statistics: The demand for information comparing one city to another is one of the internet’s most popular crime-related requests. But, as always, we direct users to http://crimeinamerica.net/city-crime-rates-top-ten-cities/ on the [More...]
Crime News: Two-thirds of human trafficking victims were age 17 or younger. 94 percent of the victims were female. Almost two-thirds of sex trafficking victims were Hispanic. The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the [More...]
Crime News: On December 15, 2009, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and Attorney General Eric Holder cohosted a Fatherhood Town Hall Meeting at Morehouse College in Atlanta, [More...]
Crime News: Launched on January 13, 1996, the AMBER Alert system issues media alerts on radio, television, highway signs, wireless devices such as mobile phones, and over the Internet when [More...]
Gentlereaders: in an earlier post we asked if "Technology Leading to 3.4 Million People Being Stalked?" See http://crimeinamerica.net/2010/01/12/is-technology-leadingto3-4-million-people-being-stalked-in-the-united-states/. We stated that we now have a day and age where people can be stalked [More...]
It’s hard for the average citizen to understand the budget situation facing state and local governments. There are two things to consider: Budget cuts are the number one story within the [More...]
Gentlereaders: As the father of two girls, you take the subject of violence against women very seriously. There is simply too much of it. Please see the "Crimes Against Women" [More...]
In January we posted an article on why crime rates were falling. We stated that there was no universal explanation for crime rates regardless as to whether they were rising [More...]
February 14–20, 2010 Children of Alcoholics Week celebrates the recovery of children who have received the help they needed to recover from the effects of parental alcohol and drug addiction, and [More...]
Demand reduction policies in the past have focused primarily on prevention, intervention, and treatment. All remain key elements of the anti-drug effort. However, under the Obama Administration, the Office of [More...]
National Survey Indicates One in Four Girls Aged 12-17 Were Involved in Serious Fights or Attacks in the Past Year Prevalence of violent acts differs by family income, school attendance, and [More...]
There is a recent article in the New York Times addressing whether or not officers and command staff accurately recorded crime data. The article by William Rashbaum states: “More than a hundred [More...]
Monitoring the Future: A Mix of Good News, Troubling Trends--Results of the 2009--Monitoring the Future (MTF) study: Show decreases among some grades in the use of cocaine, methamphetamine, and hallucinogens. The [More...]
Crime News: Sorensen and Cunningham examined the characteristics and disciplinary data of approximately 70,000 inmates in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) in 2002and 2003 to study the relationship between [More...]
Cloyes, Wong, Latimer, and Abarca conducted a study of recidivism among offenders with serious mental illness (SMI). Their study was designed to identify SMI offenders and to calculate the time [More...]
Gentlereaders: The US Department of Health and Human Servicers reports considerable drops in child abuse, sexual child abuse and emotional abuse in their latest study. There is little need for comment [More...]
Anti-bullying programs in schools are often effective, according to a new Campbell review School bullying, increasingly a topic of both public concern and research efforts, has a serious impact on children [More...]
Gentlereaders: The data presented below are offered from well known and respected criminologists using US Department of Justice funding. Their data is included in "City Crime Rates-Top Ten Cities" on this [More...]
We place our articles on a variety of internet and crime news sites. We find that there are professional and blog sites where we have wonderful conversations about the materials [More...]
We appreciate your opinions at http://crimeinamerica.net Gentlereaders: A student was asking about incarceration in the United States. He is aware that the United States is the world’s leader in rates of [More...]
Crime News: The document discusses neighborhoods and the importance of geographic composition. It examines topics, definitions and technologies that demonstrate that neighborhoods matter. Articles bring the abstract idea of a neighborhood [More...]
Executive Summary In June 2007, the New York State Unified Court System launched hybrid DWI/drug courts in Erie and Niagara Counties to address the issue of persistent driving while intoxicated (DWI). The [More...]
This question will be used as a discussion point for a class at an eastern university. Your opinions are welcomed. Gentlereaders: The study below suggests that sex offender registries are not associated [More...]
Robert S. Mueller, III Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary January 20, 2010 Good morning Chairman Leahy, Senator Sessions, and members of the Committee. I am pleased to [More...]
The FBI and the National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) have established a telephone hotline to report suspected Haitian earthquake relief fraud. The number is (866) 720-5721. The phone line [More...]
We get requests from reporters to put crime rankings in perspective. So city “A” suffers from crime increases while other cities show declines. So what’s up with city “A,” they [More...]
Allen J. Beck, Paul Guerino, Paige M. Harrison January 7, 2010 NCJ 228416 Presents data from the 2008-09 National Survey of Youth in Custody (NSYC), conducted in 195 juvenile confinement facilities between June [More...]
During the third quarter of 2009, there were 1,212 reported violations of the Federal Bank Robbery and Incidental Crimes Statue, a decrease from the 1,378 reported violations in the same [More...]
Gentlereaders: We previously reported that thirty-five of the fifty states are undergoing severe fiscal difficulties with the remainder restricting budgets as much as possible. Considering this, it was inevitable that states [More...]
The FBI today reminds Internet users who receive appeals to donate money in the aftermath of Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti to apply a critical eye and do their due diligence [More...]
Gentlereaders: We now have a day and age where people can be stalked via the Internet and GPS devices. Privacy may be a luxury of the past. Did you ever Google [More...]
Gentlereaders: This is the title of an editorial in the Washington Post on Saturday, January 2, 2010. And as you can see from the national statistics on the bottom half [More...]
Guide Offers Communities Ways To Prevent and Respond to School Violence Crime in America.Net, http://crimeinamerica.net Gentlereaders: Everything you wanted to know about school violence including documentation of infamous school crime shootings are [More...]
By COLLEEN LONG The Associated Press
Crime in America.Net crime news. Gentlereaders: In a previous post, we discussed juvenile arrest statistics and compared them to two national studies of crime; all suggest that crime rates and totals [More...]
Crime news from Crime in America.Net Gentlereaders: For those of us who have been in the criminal justice system for several decades or more, we’ve been exposed to a series of [More...]
Crime News from Crime in America.Net Gentlereaders: As you walk through a crowd in just about any major metropolitan area, you have a one on forty-five chance of being in the [More...]
Crime news from Crime in America.Net According to recent information from the Gallup Poll, ten percent of Americans state that they were the victim of identity theft or someone in their [More...]
Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2009 Presents data on crime and safety at school from the perspectives of students, teachers, and principals. A joint effort by the Bureau of Justice [More...]
Gentlereaders: There is widespread speculation regarding child sex predators on the internet. Some of the accounts seem to be purely sensational and exploitative. The Library of Congress just released (October, 2009) [More...]
Gentlereaders: Thirty-five of the fifty states are undergoing severe fiscal difficulties with the remainder restricting budgets as much as possible. Considering this, it was inevitable that states would begin the [More...]
Gentlereaders: The new officials at the Office of National Drug Control Policy state that only two of twenty-five million addicts receive drug treatment (this site offered similar research several weeks [More...]
Gentlereaders: Two of us have witnessed executions. Regardless as to your views on capitol punishment, (most Americans support the process--research contained on this site) the process of execution is unbelievably time [More...]
Gentlereaders: GPS or satellite tracking of offenders may be one of the most innovative methods of community supervision available. While far from foolproof, satellite tracking provides the incentive for many [More...]
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Very interesting blog. I would definitely put you on my favorites list.
Is there a free source to get criminal records once you locate an inmate? Or am I asking in the wrong place?
The Federal Bureau of Prisons has an inmate locator service but the 50 states all have different policies. Criminal records are not offered by any government agency that we are aware of. In fact, provision of prior criminal history information (beyond sex offender registries) is considered to be illegal.
Crime in America.Net staff.