How Many People With Criminal Histories Do We Interact With Daily?

How Many People With Criminal Histories Do We Interact With Daily?

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…

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Do Cops Control Crime And Improve Public Safety?

Cops And Crime Control–Does Society Know What It Wants?

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…

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We Ignore The USDOJ's Largest National Increase In Violent Crime-Why?

We Ignore The USDOJ’s 44 Percent Increase In Violent Crime-Why?

Highlights “The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is the nation’s primary source of information on criminal victimization,” the US Census Bureau. No one is saying…

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Arrests, Crimes Solved And Incarcerations

The Distressing Status Of Arrests, Crimes Solved And Incarcerations

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…

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We Ignore The USDOJ's Largest National Increase In Violent Crime-Why?

Millions Of Crimes Are Not Included In FBI Yearly Reports

Highlights This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. Understanding crime numbers and rates in America isn’t easy. Per FBI data, crime is down.…

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Getting Answers To Your Crime And Justice Questions

120 Million Porch Package Thefts–More Than All FBI Property Crimes

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…

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We Ignore The USDOJ's Largest National Increase In Violent Crime-Why?

Firearm Violence Statistics–281,000 Victims Used Firearms To Defend Themselves

Highlights In 2023, the rate of nonfatal firearm violence was 2.0 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older, down 72% from 7.3 per 1,000…

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The Left Is “Out Of Touch” And “Condescending,” Crime And Why Trump Won

Cops, Crime And Why Trump Won-Per Pundits, The Left Is “Out Of Touch”

Listen to a podcast of this article on Spotify or view it on YouTube. Quotes Democratic strategist James Carville, “defund the police” were “the three…

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Trump, Democrats, crime and the election

They Mislead You About Crime-One Reason Why Trump Won

Quotes “An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading,…

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The United States And Canada Are The Only Sections Of The World To Feel Less Safe

Gallup-The US And Canada Feel Less Safe Because of Crime-Podcast Available

Highlights Podcasts of this article are available on Spotify and YouTube. A world review of citizen perceptions of safety. The United States and Canada (and…

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Firearm Related Death Is More Acute For Black and Latino Men Than Deployed U.S. Soldiers

Firearm Related Death Is More Acute For Black and Latino Men Than Deployed U.S. Soldiers

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…

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An explanation of recent and older crime and fear of crime statistics and research for the layperson.

The Reality of Crime: Simplifying Stats and Fear Of Crime For Today’s Reader

Highlights Hear a podcast of this article on Spotify. An explanation of recent and older crime and fear of crime statistics and research for the…

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We Ignore The USDOJ's Largest National Increase In Violent Crime-Why?

USDOJ: Record Increase in Violence “Or” Violent Crime Declined 10 Percent For January-June 2024

Highlights The FBI released six months of reported crime data for 2024. The reasons for treating the data cautiously are below. This article covers three…

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We Ignore The USDOJ's Largest National Increase In Violent Crime-Why?

Per The USDOJ-The Nation’s Record Increase In Violent Crime Continues

Highlights Per the newly released National Crime Victimization Survey data from the USDOJ, the US experienced the largest increase in violent crime (44 percent) in…

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Is Being A Cop Harder Today?

Are Police Agencies “In Shambles” Affecting Crime Reporting?

Highlights Are law enforcement staffing levels affecting reported crime?  Are there additional reasons for reduced reported crime via the FBI? Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr.…

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Crime Victims Experience Severe Emotional Distress

40 Million Yearly Crime Victimizations-Millions Experience Emotional Distress

Highlights A podcast of this article is available on YouTube.   In the last report from the National Crime Victimization Survey, there were 6,624,950 victims of violent…

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Moving Because Of Crime

Crime Is The Number One Reason For Families Moving

Highlights Americans say a low crime rate (68%), low housing and living costs (66%), and good weather (62%) make a place desirable to live. Americans…

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Firearm Related Death Is More Acute For Black and Latino Men Than Deployed U.S. Soldiers

Is US Crime Really Declining? Or Is It A Lack Of Crime Reporting?

Highlights Is US crime really declining or is it a lack of reporting? Are we denying the reality of US crime? Are we dismissing the…

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Trump, Democrats, crime and the election

Is FBI Data An Accurate Portrayal Of Crime?

Highlights Is there a corollary between the media’s lack of coverage of the President’s cognitive abilities before the debate and their inaccurate portrayal of crime…

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