Highlights There is data stating that homicides and violence are down for select cities for the first half of 2023. Ten cities experienced an increase…
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Category: Crime Reductions in America
Are Mayors Getting Tough On Crime And Criminals?
Highlights “Biden bucks liberals and tells Democrats to get tough on crime.” “We are in a state of emergency right now.” “I think that people…
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What Works To Reduce Crime And Violence
Highlights What works to reduce crime and violence? It’s not what many think. A research-based approach to preventing violent crime. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr.…
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Can Proactive Policing Save American Cities?
Highlights There is a big increase in the criminal victimization of urban households in 2021, 30 percent compared to 22 percent in 2020. Local fear…
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DOJ: Largest Increase In Homicides-Largest Decrease in Violence-Confused?
Highlights The Bureau of Justice Statistics states that the violent victimization rate dropped 22 percent in 2020. This is the largest decrease in violence ever reported…
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Do Violence Interrupters Really Work?
Highlights Are violence interrupters effective? Does CURE violence work? A respected national criminal justice publication states that in CURE Violence initiatives, “Shootings Fell By 73…
View More Do Violence Interrupters Really Work?The President’s Plan for Violence Interruption Lacks Proof
Quote “If our ideas are not evolving with verifiable evidence, they are not reliable ideas.”― Carmine Savastano. Highlights There’s little proof that violence interruption programs work.…
View More The President’s Plan for Violence Interruption Lacks ProofThe Number of Police Officers Leaving Law Enforcement
Highlights Are cops leaving the job? Do we have enough police officers? Are they properly funded? Does the Department of Justice have a plan for…
View More The Number of Police Officers Leaving Law EnforcementThe President Knows His Crime Plan Won’t Work
Highlights Until research shows us a better way, dependence on law enforcement and accountability for people who create enormous harm will have to return. Beyond…
View More The President Knows His Crime Plan Won’t WorkPer The FBI-Overall Violent Crime Is Flat-Murder and Aggravated Assaults Increased During 2020
Highlights Per the FBI, violent crime was flat for the first six months of 2020 (decreased 0.4 percent). The number of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter…
View More Per The FBI-Overall Violent Crime Is Flat-Murder and Aggravated Assaults Increased During 2020Increase In Violent Crime Largest In A Quarter-Century Per USDOJ
Highlights The 7% increase in the violent crime rate from 2014 to 2016, per FBI data, was the largest increase over a 2-year period in…
View More Increase In Violent Crime Largest In A Quarter-Century Per USDOJViolent Crime Declines For The First Half of 2019
Highlights Statistics show overall declines in both violent and property crime in the first half of 2019 compared to the same time frame the previous…
View More Violent Crime Declines For The First Half of 2019Are Dramatic Reductions In Lower Level Arrests Increasing Violence?
Highlights Has the dramatic decrease in arrests for lower-level crimes led to the twenty-eight percent national increase in violent crimes? Will cops ever return to…
View More Are Dramatic Reductions In Lower Level Arrests Increasing Violence?Americans Increasingly Satisfied With Crime Reductions
violent crime Highlights There may be a glimmer of hope that crime and citizen perceptions may be getting better. An overview of recent polls as…
View More Americans Increasingly Satisfied With Crime ReductionsViolent Crime Stats Explained-Violence Down For 2018
Highlights Per the FBI, there is a decrease of 4.3 percent in the number of violent crimes brought to their attention for the first 6…
View More Violent Crime Stats Explained-Violence Down For 2018Crime Will Play A Major Role in the Midterm Elections
Crime and Congress Highlights 78 percent of Americans worry about crime and violence a great deal or a fair amount, the same as health…
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Police Strategies Reduce Crime-New Study
Observations A podcast of this article is available on YouTube. This may be considered “the” definitive study of policing tactics as I update this article…
View More Police Strategies Reduce Crime-New StudyCan Communities Control Crime? The Baltimore Experiment
Subtitles “Are you saying you can’t keep your hood safe?” Cops want communities to take responsibility for their own crime problems. Gang members called Ceasefire…
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“They Can’t Touch the Criminals. They Know They’re Untouchable.” Public Opinion and Crime
If offenders really believe that they are beyond the control of society and the justice system, and if we refuse to send clear messages,…
View More “They Can’t Touch the Criminals. They Know They’re Untouchable.” Public Opinion and CrimeCrime Is “Not Out of Control” Versus Record Homicides, Fear and Gun Purchases. Who’s Right?
Subtitles Violent Crime Increased in 2015. Crime has taken on a political context in the presidential election. Is that framework is affecting objective analysis and…
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