Highlights Violent crime and fear of crime numbers are concerning. These findings have implications for presidential and local politics, law enforcement and criminal justice reform.…
View More Violent Crime And Fear Of Crime Numbers Are StrikingCategory: Fear of Crime
Democrats May Lose The Election Over Crime, Cops And Incarceration
Highlights If you believe in a platform that is anti-police, anti-prison and dismissive of the safety concerns of most Americans, you’re going to lose the…
View More Democrats May Lose The Election Over Crime, Cops And IncarcerationIt Feels Like We’re Losing The Streets-The Impossible World Of Police Research
Highlights It’s time to admit that law enforcement doesn’t know what to do from an evidence-based perspective. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal senior…
View More It Feels Like We’re Losing The Streets-The Impossible World Of Police Research74% Of Fragile Community Residents Treated Fairly By Police
Highlights It’s interesting that after getting slammed in the media, all research reports give mostly positive marks to police officers. Per the Bureau of Justice…
View More 74% Of Fragile Community Residents Treated Fairly By PoliceCrime News Is A Priority-What This Means For Police and Criminal Justice Agencies
Observations Crime news is a top priority for citizens. Government agencies and local organizations are an important source of news with some data suggesting that…
View More Crime News Is A Priority-What This Means For Police and Criminal Justice Agencies85,000 Cops Investigated For Misconduct Per USA Today
Observations Per USA Today, about 85,000 law enforcement officers across the USA have been investigated in the last decade. Is there more to the story…
View More 85,000 Cops Investigated For Misconduct Per USA TodaySeventy-Five Percent of Americans Worry About Crime
Highlights When 75 percent of Americans worry about crime, and when related issues of guns and drug use also score high, it’s an indication that…
View More Seventy-Five Percent of Americans Worry About CrimeAmericans 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 ReductionsCan Communities Decide Their Law Enforcement?
Highlights Politicians, newspaper editors, cities and communities need to be held accountable for their own crime problems. Mandating aggressive enforcement in communities that don’t want…
View More Can Communities Decide Their Law Enforcement?Citizens-Not Cops-Need To Do More To Control Violent Crime
Baltimore Police Motorcycles Highlights We are in danger of losing cities to violent crime. There may be points of no return for decades. The future…
View More Citizens-Not Cops-Need To Do More To Control Violent CrimeCriminals And Guns-Why Cops Are Concerned
Highlights A very high percentage of violent offenders use or carry firearms per federal sources. What this means for police-involved shootings and public policy. Author…
View More Criminals And Guns-Why Cops Are ConcernedHalf of Americans Believe Crime Is Very or Extremely Serious
Highlights Fear of crime declines but impacts half of Americans. Concern over crime shifts to personal data. 78 percent of Americans worry about crime a great…
View More Half of Americans Believe Crime Is Very or Extremely SeriousCrime 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…
View More Crime Will Play A Major Role in the Midterm ElectionsAmerican Confidence in Law Enforcement Very High
Highlights Per Gallup, 85 percent of Americans either have a great deal or some confidence in law enforcement. The media and Congress are at the…
View More American Confidence in Law Enforcement Very HighThe Public Is Responsible for Crime-Not Cops
Observations Cops take the heat for rising crime, but that emphasis is misplaced. It’s communities that control crime. This is criminology 101. But if you…
View More The Public Is Responsible for Crime-Not CopsThe US Is One Of The World’s Safest Countries
Issues Some suggest that the United States is one of the world’s most violent countries. Some suggest that it’s comparatively safe. Who is correct? The…
View More The US Is One Of The World’s Safest CountriesAmerican Police-The World’s Most Trusted Per Gallup
Observations Gallup’s 2018 Global Law and Order report state that US and Canadian police are the world’s most trusted law enforcement officers. There are bad cops…
View More American Police-The World’s Most Trusted Per GallupUS Ranks Third For Women And Sexual Violence
Observation Thomson Reuters-“The only Western nation in the top 10 was the United States, which ranked joint third when respondents were asked where women were most…
View More US Ranks Third For Women And Sexual ViolenceDo You Trust Cops? Do Cops Trust You?
Question Do you trust cops? According to the most recent Gallup survey, you do. Do cops trust you? According to the data below, they have…
View More Do You Trust Cops? Do Cops Trust You?Violent Crimes Reported to Police Hit Record Lows
Observation In 2016, fewer than half (42%) of violent crimes were reported to police. This is the lowest percentage of violent crimes reported since 1998.…
View More Violent Crimes Reported to Police Hit Record Lows