Highlights Hear a podcast of this article on Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, and other audio-video sources. A recent study demonstrates that the risk of firearm-related death…
View More Firearm Related Death Is More Acute For Black and Latino Men Than Deployed U.S. Soldiers
Highlights In the last report from the National Crime Victimization Survey, there were 6,624,950 victims of violent crime and 13.4 million property victimizations of U.S. households. Per…
View More 40 Million Yearly Crime Victimizations-Millions Experience Emotional Distress
Introduction A synopsis of family and community violence research that is strongly connected to those involved in violent crime. Childhood trauma can “rewire” the brain,…
View More Does Child Abuse And Family-Community Instability Cause Violent Crime?
Highlights An overview of the circumstances of homicides and aggravated assaults. Per assaults on law enforcement, there were close to 20,000 aggravated assaults. There were…
View More What Causes Murders And Aggravated Assaults?
Highlights Arrests have plummeted along with crimes solved. Do we ask too much from too few? Do we provide the resources cops need to solve…
View More Most Crimes Are Not Solved-Why?
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…
View More He Had Mental Health Issues-How Did He Get A Gun?
Highlights An overview of two recent documents on mass shootings and mass shooters from the US Secret Service and the National Institute of Justice. Both…
View More Recognizing Mass Shooters And Potential Attacks In Public Places-Federal Research
Highlights Bureau Of Justice Statistics: The percentage of females murdered by an intimate partner was 5 times higher than for males. Bureau Of Justice Statistics:…
View More 76% Of Female Murders Committed By Someone They Knew
Highlights From 2020 to 2021, the violent victimization rate increased from 19.0 to 24.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons in urban areas while remaining unchanged in…
View More Violent Victimization Increases For Urban Areas in 2021 Per USDOJ
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…
View More Red Flag Laws And Other Impossible Police-Justice ReformsHighlights The latest data on mass shootings from the National Institute of Justice of the US Department of Justice and the Rand Corporation. There are…
View More The Best Answers To Mass Shooting Questions-USDOJ Funded ResearchHighlights Violence is pounding many distressed communities and groups. Higher rates of violence and crime are affecting lower-income communities, African Americans, the elderly, Asians, Hispanics,…
View More “It’s African American Communities That Are Bearing The Brunt Of Violence”Highlights “I think for a lot of us, we don’t realize how we become dangerous to other humans because we do not care about ourselves,…
View More The Family And Community Pipeline to CrimeHighlights 70 police officers have died from exposure to the Coronavirus. Thousands more are out sick. For the moment, crime during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic…
View More Coronavirus And Crime-70 Police Officers Dead-Commercial Burglaries Up 100% in NYCHighlights Citizens will look to law enforcement for leadership and guidance. It’s time to prepare and enhance our communications strategies The Coronavirus will push the…
View More The Coronavirus, Law Enforcement, Corrections And CrimeHighlights Who has the highest risk for violent crime? What are the circumstances? Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal senior spokesperson. Thirty-five years of…
View More The Probability of Being A Victim of Violent CrimeHighlights Domestic violence programs don’t reduce recidivism. Until we are willing to deal with the underlying problems of mental health and additional reasons for offender…
View More Domestic Violence Programs Don’t WorkCrime Against Women Highlights Violence against women is growing. An analysis of 4,484 killings of women in 47 major U.S. cities over the past decade…
View More Violence Against Women Increasing
Observations It’s up to us within the criminal justice system to identify repeat victims and those with high rates of victimization to provide counseling, victim…
View More Repeat Victims Represent 50 Percent of Violent Crime
Observations 1.3 million nonfatal domestic violence victimizations occur each year. Police were notified of more than half (56%) of these victimizations. Does increased reporting…
View More Domestic Violence Reports to Police Exceed General Violent Crime-But 600,000 Unreported Each Year