Highlights This article is available as a YouTube Podcast. A guide to getting answers to crime and justice questions. Most in state and local justice…
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Category: Courts
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…
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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…
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The Myth Of Technical Violations And Parole And Probation Arrests
Highlights Per the US Department of Justice and the US Sentencing Commission, the vast majority of rearrests for those on community supervision or parole and…
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He Had Mental Health Issues-How Did He Get A Gun?
Highlights People want to know how mentally ill offenders obtain firearms or why firearms were not confiscated. 5.7 percent out of 25 million potential firearm…
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Let The Public Decide The Appropriateness And Length of Prison Sentences
Highlights Does the public support incarceration for violent or repeat criminal victimizations? Let the public in each state decide the appropriateness of prison sentences and…
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Red Flag Laws And Other Impossible Police-Justice Reforms
Highlights Red flag laws are impossible to effectively enforce. We within the justice system knew that when they were introduced. What most want in terms…
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The Homeless Are Far More Likely To Commit Crimes And To Be Victims
Highlights San Diego: experiencing homelessness have been involved with crime “at dramatically higher rates than the rest of the population,” whether as victims or offenders.…
View More The Homeless Are Far More Likely To Commit Crimes And To Be VictimsThe Questionable Evidence Of Parole And Probation Supervision
Highlights There is little indicating that “evidence-based” programs work or that revocations are mostly for technical violations, or that the great bulk of our resources…
View More The Questionable Evidence Of Parole And Probation SupervisionSmash And Grab Robberies Won’t Be Stopped
Highlights Smash and grab robberies can’t be stopped per a former chief of police. He’s right. Here’s why. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal…
View More Smash And Grab Robberies Won’t Be StoppedIs Bail Reform Dying? 43 Percent Of Murder Suspects Bailed Or Out
Highlights Advocates claim there is no relationship between bail reform and increased crime. Police executives say the opposite. Who’s telling the truth? Either advocates for…
View More Is Bail Reform Dying? 43 Percent Of Murder Suspects Bailed Or OutLowest Number Of Juvenile Arrests In 40 Years-DOJ Lauds The Reductions
Highlights Juvenile arrests dropped to their lowest level in 40 years. Juvenile arrests overall fell by 58% between 2010 and 2019. The data shows that…
View More Lowest Number Of Juvenile Arrests In 40 Years-DOJ Lauds The ReductionsMost Prisoners Serve Less Than Two Years-Violent Serve Less Than Three
Highlights An overview of time served in prison from the US Department of Justice. Most offenders are out of prison in less than two years.…
View More Most Prisoners Serve Less Than Two Years-Violent Serve Less Than ThreeRecommendations-The President’s Commission on Law Enforcement
Highlights A summary of recommended improvements for law enforcement and the justice system from the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice.…
View More Recommendations-The President’s Commission on Law EnforcementProbation and Recidivism–A Lot Of These Guys Have 15 to 20 Felonies
Highlights “The leniency shown to these bad actors by the judicial system results in recidivistic crimes that prey on the public…” Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Is the…
View More Probation and Recidivism–A Lot Of These Guys Have 15 to 20 FeloniesIs Accountability For Criminal Offenders Dead?
Highlights The Philadelphia Inquirer suggests that probation is a harsh, overzealous trap. But felony cases are flooding the probation system. Recidivism rates are high. More…
View More Is Accountability For Criminal Offenders Dead?Trials and Juries Are Dying
Highlights Only 2% of federal criminal defendants go to trial, and most who do are found guilty. As to states, jury trials accounted for fewer…
View More Trials and Juries Are DyingThe Jussie Smollett Decision Isn’t Unusual
Highlights Prosecutors defer and drop cases all the time. The Jussie Smollett decision is not unusual. 16 to 50 percent of federal crimes are declined from…
View More The Jussie Smollett Decision Isn’t UnusualMost Violent Prisoners Serve Less Than Three Years in Prison
Highlights More than half (57 percent) of violent offenders served less than three years in prison per a new DOJ report. The average time an…
View More Most Violent Prisoners Serve Less Than Three Years in PrisonDoes Anything Work in Parole and Probation?
Observation As we celebrate parole and probation week, don’t agents (and society) deserve more than a system that seems hopelessly adrift? Author Leonard Adam Sipes,…
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