Category: Police Contacts With The Public

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The President Knows His Crime Plan Won’t Work

admin June 28, 2021 5 Comments

Highlights Until research shows us a better way, dependence on law enforcement and accountability for people who create enormous harm will have to return. Beyond…

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Do Black and Hispanic Americans Support Law Enforcement?

admin June 23, 2021 1 Comment

Highlights Do Black and Hispanic Americans support law enforcement? Yes, but polling data provides a range of emotions and opinions. Many police officers regardless of…

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Low Income Or Fragile Communities Want More Cops

admin June 21, 2021 4 Comments

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.…

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Are Police Groups Playing Politics With Crime?

admin June 14, 2021 1 Comment

Highlights The majority of Americans trust those running law enforcement agencies. So police organizations are emulating their critics as to stretching truth? Exactly what did…

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Mental Health Issues Drive Crime-Most Offenders Have Symptoms

admin June 9, 2021 3 Comments

Highlights An overview of US Department of Justice and supplemental data as to mental and emotional health and crime. Most offenders have troubled backgrounds and…

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Should Cops Take More Risks?

admin June 2, 2021 1 Comment

Highlights Critics want cops to take greater risks. The data states that they are already doing that. Critics want American cops to be more like…

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What The Public Knows About Cops Or Police Shootings Is Usually Wrong

admin May 17, 2021 1 Comment

Highlights Is misinformation about law enforcement affecting the vast increases in violent crime? Are we losing cops? There is endless negative publicity (some of it…

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DOJ May Publish The Most Dangerous And Fearful Cities Plus Opinions Of Police Agencies

admin May 10, 2021 2 Comments

  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…

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Per Gallup Black Americans Want Cops In Their Communities

admin April 28, 2021 1 Comment

Highlights Per Gallup, 81 percent of African Americans want the police presence in their communities to stay the same or increased. Out of 40-60 million…

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Is There A National Police Strike?

admin February 22, 2021 2 Comments

Highlights Department of Justice data indicates that there is no national police strike or slowdown. There are, however, problems in communities where trust between cops…

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Fewer Police Officers-Black And Female Cops Increase Dramatically

admin February 15, 2021 No Comments

Highlights A variety of police and crime statistics are offered by The Council on Criminal Justice. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal senior spokesperson.…

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Cops Are Leaving-What Does This Mean For Public Safety?

admin January 20, 2021 2 Comments

Highlights Cops are leaving the job in record numbers. If there is any question as to the impact of police officers on society, remove them…

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National Police Slowdowns And Other Myths Debunked Per The USDOJ

admin December 21, 2020 1 Comment

Highlights The data below is based on what citizens interacting with police tell researchers about their experience from 2015-2018. Contrary to critics, there was no…

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How Americans Feel About Law Enforcement

admin October 21, 2020 18 Comments

Highlights Polling data show a mixed bag of results regarding public perceptions of law enforcement, some is harshly negative, some (based on interactions) is quite…

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Per Gallup, The Majority Of Americans Rate Police Encounters As Positive, Respectful and Fair

admin September 10, 2020 No Comments

Highlights The data from a variety of sources indicate that those coming into contact with law enforcement (rather than a general public opinion poll) rate…

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Use of Force, Training And Costs For Police Agencies Per The USDOJ

admin September 8, 2020 No Comments

Highlights-Police Policies Training, costs, community policing, use of force, use of blunt force projectiles (i.e., bean bags-rubber bullets), use of chemical agents (tear gas), active…

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81 Percent Express Confidence in Police Yet Polls Show Declines And Disparities

admin August 17, 2020 4 Comments

Highlights When adding all three categories in a recent Gallup poll, a great deal of confidence, quite a lot, and some, 81 percent expressed a…

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Funding Reduced For Most Police Agencies-Violence Increasing

admin August 3, 2020 3 Comments

Highlights Few law enforcement agencies, regardless of size, are being spared. It’s being called a “perfect storm” and the biggest budget cuts in a decade.…

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What The Public Thinks About Police Reform And Defunding

admin July 27, 2020 1 Comment

Highlights Per Gallup, “Most Americans Say Policing Needs Major Changes.” Every day brings more protests and endless videos of riots, looting, arson, graffiti, and assaults…

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Social Workers And Cops-We Can’t Be All Things To All People

admin July 22, 2020 No Comments

Highlights “We have a joke in policing, that cops hate two things: change and the way things are,” (social media response). Any sense that cops…

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