Highlights An early look at reported crime data for 2025 from the FBI. Numbers from the USDOJ’s National Crime Victimization Survey are included for comparison…
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Is FBI Data A Reliable Count Of National Crime?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. FBI crime statistics reflect crime trends based on incidents reported to police, but are vastly incomplete…
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We’re Putting More People in Prison, Right? Reasons For Declining Reported Crime
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. “There have to be reasons for declining crime,” states one reader. What about jail and prison…
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Official Crime Counts May Dramatically Understate US Criminality
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. An overview of how the USDOJ counts crime, including the use of the National Crime Victimization…
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Do We Know Why Crime Is Declining?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube video. Example: L.A. sees lowest homicide rate in decades — but why killings are down is up for…
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Do Crime Rates Rise and Fall Together Across Countries?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. There are reports of declining crime in US cities. People are asking why? Is it…
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America’s Crime Statistics Will Change—Here’s Why
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Your jurisdiction’s crime rates could increase or decrease significantly. Per an Executive Order…
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Latest Data On American Fear Of Crime-Fear Remains High But Improved
Highlights This article is available as a video podcast on YouTube. Americans’ views of crime in the U.S. have improved for the second straight year.…
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USDOJ-Violent Crime Rates Remain High After 44 Percent Increase
Highlights We are at a new level of criminal violence in the United States. This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. Per the…
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The FBI-D.C. And Local Crime Reductions-Do You Feel Safer?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. The FBI and local police agencies offer data indicating substantial reductions in violent and property crime…
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Update-The FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System Greatly Improves
Highlights We are on the verge of a new and better way of analyzing crime data through the FBI’s emerging National Incident-Based Reporting System. But…
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Thank You For 15 Years of Crime In America.Net
Highlights CrimeInAmerica.Net is 15 years old. I appreciate your support. A list of accomplishments is below. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Former Senior Specialist for…
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The Reality of Crime: Simplifying Stats and Fear Of Crime For Today’s Reader
Highlights Hear a podcast of this article on Spotify. An explanation of recent and older crime and fear of crime statistics and research for the…
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USDOJ: Record Increase in Violence “Or” Violent Crime Declined 10 Percent For January-June 2024
Highlights The FBI released six months of reported crime data for 2024. The reasons for treating the data cautiously are below. This article covers three…
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USDOJ: A Record Increase in Violence “Or” Violent Crime Declined 3 Percent
Highlights As to crime in America, who do we believe, the FBI with its 3 percent decrease in violent crime, or the National Crime Victimization…
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Per The USDOJ-The Nation’s Record Increase In Violent Crime Continues
Highlights Per the newly released National Crime Victimization Survey data from the USDOJ, the US experienced the largest increase in violent crime (44 percent) in…
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Is US Crime Really Declining? The Impossible World Of Crime Statistics
Highlights Is crime decreasing? “There’s a crime divide between Americans and politicians, and voters are watching,” The Hill. “The White House to the left: We…
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Record Increases And Decreases In US Crime In Two Years-Who’s Right?
Highlights We have immense contrasts in record increases and decreases in crime in two years from the US Department of Justice. It’s becoming increasingly difficult…
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Crime Decreased In 2023 Per The FBI-Metropolitan Areas Still Struggle With Crime
Highlights Except for homicides and rapes, most of the decreases in metropolitan areas (where the vast majority of Americans live) are rather small. Robberies increased…
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Growing Concerns About Violence Despite FBI Statistics-Who’s Right?
Highlights The President and others insist that violent crime has decreased considerably. Yet data, citizens, and recent media reports say the opposite. Who’s right? Author…
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