Highlights Are weight loss drugs affecting criminal activity? There’s data suggesting that it does. There seems to be a wide array of new observations beyond…
Highlights Compared with just a few years ago, fewer teenagers are: Drinking alcohol. Binge drinking. Smoking cigarettes. Vaping nicotine. Using marijuana. Beginning to use alcohol…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Extensive literature reviews from impartial, prestigious research organizations on crime and justice operations are rare. The…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. After decades in the justice system (six years in law enforcement) with multiple university degrees, I…
Highlights This article was created to support my 35th appearance on the nationally syndicated Armstrong Williams show focusing on worldwide fear of crime. This article…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. After decades in the justice system (six years in law enforcement) with multiple university degrees, I…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Highlights There’s no national consensus as to what we want from parole and probation employees or agencies. Parole and probation agents supervise and…
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…
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…
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…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Extensive literature reviews from impartial, prestigious research organizations on crime and justice operations are rare. The…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Gallup documents a considerable decrease in confidence for the American institutions measured. The law enforcement profession,…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. There are hundreds of media articles celebrating the reductions in reported crime as offered by the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…