Highlights With insurance companies, what’s the difference between storms, wildfires, and crime? If your home or business is broken into, or if you are injured…
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Category: Most Dangerous Cities/States
College Crimes Increased Before Protests
Highlights Per the US Department of Education, there were 38,303 crimes on college campuses in 2022, the highest number since 2013. A University of Chicago…
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Twenty Top States For Police Spending
Highlights The top twenty states for spending on law enforcement. Correctional spending is included. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal senior spokesperson. Thirty-five years…
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Violent Crime Totals By State
Highlights We present the states with the highest and lowest totals of violent crime and provide some context based on numbers provided by the FBI…
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US Violence Is Both Increasing And Decreasing? Who’s Right?
Highlights We have a paradox, significantly rising violence and serious violence in 2022 per the National Crime Victimization Survey and mostly decreasing violent crime in…
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Cities Ranked For Fear Of Crime-Do Crime Rates Impact Fear?
Highlights Gallup offers a poll on perceptions of crime-related safety for 16 American cities. Do one-year reductions or increases in city crime rates or totals…
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Characteristics Of High-Crime Communities-Dangers To Children
Highlights Where crime is concentrated? Income and location mean much to parents rating neighborhoods as to potential dangers to their children. It’s a unique and…
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States Having The Highest Rates Of Violent And Property Crimes
Highlights Arizona, Colorado, and Washington states have much higher rates of violence when compared to other large states. Arizona, Colorado, California, Indiana, Texas, and Washington…
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Police Stops Are Dangerous-Arrests Are Plummeting-Why Violence Is Increasing
Highlights Ever wonder why violence is increasing? Are there reasons why arrests are plummeting, correctional populations are at record lows and thousands of cops are…
View More Police Stops Are Dangerous-Arrests Are Plummeting-Why Violence Is IncreasingSolutions To “The Tragedy Of Baltimore’s Violence Problem”
Editor’s Note: This article supports the nationally syndicated Armstrong Williams television show (I’ve been a guest many times) regarding crime in Baltimore City. I was…
View More Solutions To “The Tragedy Of Baltimore’s Violence Problem”Is The US One Of The Most Dangerous Countries?
Highlights Gallup’s Law and Order Index rates countries as to safety and confidence in law enforcement. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal senior spokesperson.…
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The Homeless Are Far More Likely To Commit Crimes And To Be Victims
Highlights San Diego: experiencing homelessness have been involved with crime “at dramatically higher rates than the rest of the population,” whether as victims or offenders.…
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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…
View More Can Proactive Policing Save American Cities?30 Percent Of Urban Households Victimized By Crime In 2021
Highlights-2021 There is a big increase in the criminal victimization of urban households in 2021, 30 percent compared to 22 percent in 2020. Seven percent…
View More 30 Percent Of Urban Households Victimized By Crime In 2021Low Income Or Fragile Communities Want More Cops
Highlights 68% of Chicago’s “fragile community” (i.e., low income) residents want a greater police presence. 54 percent of low-income communities nationally want more police officers.…
View More Low Income Or Fragile Communities Want More CopsSending The Wrong Messages To Criminals Encourages Crime
Highlights Offenders understand that the rules governing them have softened considerably. We are telling offenders that the justice system is backing down and that their…
View More Sending The Wrong Messages To Criminals Encourages CrimeDOJ May Publish The Most Dangerous And Fearful Cities Plus Opinions Of Police Agencies
Highlights-New Reports On The Future On Local Crime, Fear And Police Perceptions What’s being explored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the US…
View More DOJ May Publish The Most Dangerous And Fearful Cities Plus Opinions Of Police Agencies33% 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…
View More 33% Increase In Urban Homicides-Rising Violence Continues In 2021Crime And Threats Cause People and Businesses To Move
Highlights Per Gallup, “when Americans felt under threat in their daily lives,” they express a desire to move. 48% now prefer to live in a…
View More Crime And Threats Cause People and Businesses To MoveExplaining COVID And Post Lockdown Violence
Highlights The bedrock of today’s violence could be the shock of the pandemic plus relaxed or disappearing enforcement. The increase in homicides, aggravated assaults, carjackings…
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