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…
View More Mental Health Issues Drive Crime-Most Offenders Have SymptomsCategory: Police Contacts With The Public
Should Cops Take More Risks?
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…
View More Should Cops Take More Risks?What The Public Knows About Cops Or Police Shootings Is Usually Wrong
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…
View More What The Public Knows About Cops Or Police Shootings Is Usually WrongDOJ 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 AgenciesPer Gallup Black Americans Want Cops In Their Communities
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…
View More Per Gallup Black Americans Want Cops In Their CommunitiesIs There A National Police Strike?
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…
View More Is There A National Police Strike?Fewer Police Officers-Black And Female Cops Increase Dramatically
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.…
View More Fewer Police Officers-Black And Female Cops Increase DramaticallyCops Are Leaving-What Does This Mean For Public Safety?
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…
View More Cops Are Leaving-What Does This Mean For Public Safety?National Police Slowdowns And Other Myths Debunked Per The USDOJ
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…
View More National Police Slowdowns And Other Myths Debunked Per The USDOJHow Americans Feel About Law Enforcement
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…
View More How Americans Feel About Law EnforcementPer Gallup, The Majority Of Americans Rate Police Encounters As Positive, Respectful and Fair
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…
View More Per Gallup, The Majority Of Americans Rate Police Encounters As Positive, Respectful and FairUse of Force, Training And Costs For Police Agencies Per The USDOJ
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…
View More Use of Force, Training And Costs For Police Agencies Per The USDOJ81 Percent Express Confidence in Police Yet Polls Show Declines And Disparities
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…
View More 81 Percent Express Confidence in Police Yet Polls Show Declines And DisparitiesFunding Reduced For Most Police Agencies-Violence Increasing
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.…
View More Funding Reduced For Most Police Agencies-Violence IncreasingWhat The Public Thinks About Police Reform And Defunding
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…
View More What The Public Thinks About Police Reform And DefundingSocial Workers And Cops-We Can’t Be All Things To All People
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…
View More Social Workers And Cops-We Can’t Be All Things To All PeopleDefunding The Police? It Already Happened-Law Enforcement Expenditures Since 2000
Highlights National police spending has been relatively flat or has decreased in recent years. There is a twenty-eight percent increase in violence (with serious violent…
View More Defunding The Police? It Already Happened-Law Enforcement Expenditures Since 2000Social Workers Need To Step Up And Replace Cops
Highlights If you want to significantly reduce use of force issues in policing, social workers need to respond to many crisis situations. Being a cop…
View More Social Workers Need To Step Up And Replace CopsIs Crime Control Dead?
Highlights If crime control is no longer the priority then be prepared for major changes that citizens will find abhorrent. There has to be some…
View More Is Crime Control Dead?Public Confidence In The Police Is Stronger Than You Think
Highlights The recruitment of cops is down 63 percent. Officers are calling in sick throughout the country. A DC police union survey says 71 percent…
View More Public Confidence In The Police Is Stronger Than You Think