Violent Crime
Gallup-Four Out Of Five Democrats View Crime As A Serious National Concern
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Per Gallup, seventeen percent of Democrats say that crime in the US is not serious, versus…
Are Americans Stupid When It Comes To Crime?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Crimes reported to law enforcement are down throughout the country, yet fear of crime remains remarkably…
Crime Emerged When AI Agents Created Their Own Society
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Researchers placed AI agents into virtual societies and allowed them to interact with minimal human supervision.…
New Data On Black Communities and Firearm Violence
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. New research from RAND explores the impact of violent crime and firearm violence on the Black…
Police: “We’re Not Reporting All Crime”: A Persistent Claim Across American Cities
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. A list of cities focusing on current and past charges of downgrading crime statistics. Do mayors…
FBI Reported Preliminary Crime Data For 2025
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…
Top Factors That Contribute To Violent Crime
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Per a reader’s request, the article lists the primary factors that contribute to violent and overall…
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…
Felonies And Violent Crimes-Increasing Part Of Parole And Probation Caseloads
Summation This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Statistics on parole and probation from the Bureau of Justice Statistics are offered for 2023. 2024 data will…
Most Offenders Do Not Pay Victim Restitution-National Crime Victims Week
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. This article recognizes National Crime Victims’ Rights Week and asks why states do not enforce compensation…
FBI Data-Aggravated Assaults And Firearms
Highlights Aggravated assault is defined by the FBI as “an unlawful attack by one person upon another wherein the offender uses a dangerous weapon or…
Sexual Assault and Older Female Victims
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. This article addresses whether sexual assault of elderly women is so unlikely that it can reasonably…
Police Officer Deaths-January-March 2026
Highlights Ten officers have been feloniously killed in the first 3 months of 2026. CrimeinAmerica.Net-Chat GPT’s “Top 10 Sources for Crime in America” based on…
Fear Of Crime Continues To Decline in 2026 Per Gallup
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. The criminological literature is very clear: fear of crime concerns can destroy cities, the psychological well-being…
Many Criminal Offenders Do Not Want Drug Treatment
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Examples from California, Oregon, and other areas indicate that many (most?) drug offenders do not want…
Offender Recidivism
Top Factors That Contribute To Violent Crime
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Per a reader’s request, the article lists the primary factors that contribute to violent and overall…
Felonies And Violent Crimes-Increasing Part Of Parole And Probation Caseloads
Summation This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Statistics on parole and probation from the Bureau of Justice Statistics are offered for 2023. 2024 data will…
Most Offenders Do Not Pay Victim Restitution-National Crime Victims Week
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. This article recognizes National Crime Victims’ Rights Week and asks why states do not enforce compensation…
Many Criminal Offenders Do Not Want Drug Treatment
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Examples from California, Oregon, and other areas indicate that many (most?) drug offenders do not want…
When Pigs Fly-Democratic Think Tanks Get Tough On Crime
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. “Protecting people from crime is one of the government’s most fundamental and urgent responsibilities. However, the…
Cities Say Social Programs Reduced Homicides-Are They Right?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. It’s unrealistic to expect that limited social interactions by violence interrupters and program providers are going…
Crime Discussions-A Liberal’s Think Tank’s Advice To Progressives
Highlights This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. Are progressives hurting their own causes with what they say about crime? “We are doing our…
Cities-Baltimore-Crime Reductions And Misleading The Public
This article is available as a YouTube video. Cities are claiming significant crime reductions by providing services to potential offenders. They are downplaying the role…
Is It Possible To Safely Release Violent Prison Inmates Early?
Highlights This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. This is a national story as several states contemplate reducing sentences for violent offenders. Per…
How Many People With Criminal Histories Do We Interact With Daily?
Highlights You, your spouse, and your children interact daily with people who have criminal histories. Acknowledging this and evaluating potentially menacing or uncomfortable situations keeps…
Parole And Probation: Dangers, Realities, and the Need for Change
Highlights There’s no national consensus as to what we want from parole and probation employees or agencies. Parole and probation agents supervise and…
The Average Time Served in State Prisons Is 1.3 Years
Highlights The median (average) time served in state prison for all offenses is 1.3 years. This article is available via a podcast on YouTube. Author…
How Many Crimes Are Prosecuted In The United States?
Highlights Most crimes involve reduced charges or dropped or deferred prosecutions. Concessions through plea-bargains, dropped charges, and limited prison sentences are seen as necessary to…
Race-Criminal Justice Reform and Biased Offender Risk Assessments
Highlights If risk assessments of criminal offenders consistently show signs of bias, what does that mean for criminal justice reform? “There remains evidence that the…
A Crime Victim’s Right To Owning An Offender’s Name And Money
Highlights Maybe it’s time for crime victims to appeal to the courts for redress and financial compensation to force their victimizers to pay a price…
Police / Law Enforcement
64,000 Full-Time Police Vacancies In One Year Per The USDOJ
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Of approximately 708,000 sworn U.S. police officers, about 57,000 left their jobs in 2020, while roughly…
West Virginia Songwriter Praises Law Enforcement Through His Music
Highlights You’re lost at close to 5,000 feet in a fog bank on a mountain road. Your child needs medical care while traveling. You’re confronted…
Winning the Middle: Improved Media Strategies for Police And Justice Agencies
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Our reputation depends on how we communicate and how often we create media to accent our…
Did The Loss Of 25,000 Cops Create A 25 Percent Reduction In Arrests?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. The 2024 arrest total was 25% lower than in 2019, the year before the pandemic, and…
Cities-Baltimore-Crime Reductions And Misleading The Public
This article is available as a YouTube video. Cities are claiming significant crime reductions by providing services to potential offenders. They are downplaying the role…
Black Perceptions Of Police–Highest Confidence Levels Recorded By Gallup
Summation This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Although Black Americans’ positive impressions of each measure have been at the majority level since 2021,…
How Americans Rate the Police–Largest Yearly Increase
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Americans’ confidence in the police increased eight percentage points over the past year to 51%, the largest…
Is Policing The Toughest Job In America?
Highlights Americans have considerable mental health and substance problems plus an inability to behave well per data. These issues have implications for police-civilian encounters. About…
Cops And Crime Control–Does Society Know What It Wants?
Highlights We must decide what we want from law enforcement before we lose thousands of additional cops and endanger public safety. At the moment, proactive…
The Distressing Status Of Arrests, Crimes Solved And Incarcerations
Highlights For the first time in many years, incarcerations and arrests, seem to be increasing with a slight expansion of police officers after losing 25,000…
The United States Lost Over 25,000 Local Police Personnel
Highlights Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicate the considerable loss of police officers in recent years. BLS Charts are below. Tens of…
120 Million Porch Package Thefts–More Than All FBI Property Crimes
Highlights There are 120 million porch package thefts in the US. Searches for “stolen package” spike every December, according to Google Trends. The survey indicated…
Cops, Crime And Why Trump Won-Per Pundits, The Left Is “Out Of Touch”
Listen to a podcast of this article on Spotify or view it on YouTube. Quotes Democratic strategist James Carville, “defund the police” were “the three…
Law Enforcement Officers Face A 54 Percent Higher Risk Of Dying By Suicide-Podcasts Available
Highlights Hear a podcast of this article on Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, and other audio-video sources. Why are so many professionals leaving law enforcement, corrections, and youth services? …
Contacts With The Police Plummet-USDOJ Report Card On American Policing-Podcast Available
Highlights Hear a podcast of this article on Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, and other audio-video sources. The overwhelming majority of Americans expressed satisfaction with their…