33% Increase In Urban Homicides-Rising Violence Continues In 2021

Highlights Violent crime, aggravated assaults and homicides increased in 2020. Rising violence continues for 2021. “Some cities are set to outpace last year’s numbers,” The…

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Most 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.…

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Homicides and Gun Crimes Exploding-What Comes Next?

Highlights New research quantifies increasing violence, homicides and gun crimes. Previous USDOJ research shows a 28 percent increase in violent crime. Serious violent crime also…

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Biden’s Crime And Police Agenda Is Filled With Landmines

Highlights Does Mr. Biden have any police or crime control options that will not cost him politically? To rebuild high poverty areas and to create…

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Female Correctional Officers And Sexual Misconduct

Highlights 69 percent of staff sexual assault allegations with male prison inmates involve female correctional employees, Bureau Of Justice Statistics. In juvenile facilities, in most-serious…

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Biden-Give Me The Crime Issue And You’ll Never Have Trouble With It In An Election

  Highlights Past Quotes From Joe Biden: “Give Me The Crime Issue And You’ll Never Have Trouble With It In An Election” “Violent crime is…

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Criminal Rehabilitation Programs-Some Work-Most Don’t

Offender Rehabilitation And Reentry Programs-What Works “Programs that included group work, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) or CBT-like components, counseling, or that used drug court or other…

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Federal And State Offenders Highly Mobile-30 To 60 Percent Had Convictions In Multiple States

Highlights Federal offenders seem to be highly mobile. If we include arrests and prosecutions along with convictions, the percentages from other states would be much…

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Probation 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…

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The Federal Government Will Predict Future Criminal Behavior

Highlights Development of the US Department of Justice risk and needs assessment could affect as many as 106,000 federal prisoners. If researchers and critics cannot…

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Facebook Bans Violence, Crime and Criminal Behavior-Is That Possible?

Observations Facebook is banning violence, crime and criminal behaviors from its platform (see guidelines below). Social media is now a super-highway for mass murderers and…

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