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 IncreasingCategory: Police Shootings-Protests-Riots
What 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 CopsPer Cops-No Justice-No Peace
Highlights No justice no peace? That’s what cops are saying to themselves by forgoing proactively. As a result, violence is increasing. If you condemn all…
View More Per Cops-No Justice-No PeaceIs 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 ThinkArrests and Police Contacts Plummet While Violence Increases
Highlights Per the US Department of Justice, violent crime increased 28 percent since 2015. Serious violent crime is also increasing. This is happening while arrests…
View More Arrests and Police Contacts Plummet While Violence IncreasesCamden-The Most Violent City In New Jersey
Highlights A search for answers after the death of George Floyd and the black lives matter protests. Camden, NJ, is being touted as a success…
View More Camden-The Most Violent City In New JerseyDefunding The Police-What Cops Support
Highlights A search for answers after the death of George Floyd and the black lives matter protests. The problem with defunding law enforcement is that…
View More Defunding The Police-What Cops SupportCops And The George Floyd Disturbances-Is It Time To Leave?
Highlights A search for answers after the death of George Floyd. If America now believes that all cops are the problem, why would they stay?…
View More Cops And The George Floyd Disturbances-Is It Time To Leave?The Death Of George Floyd-Riots-And What Happens Next?
Highlights A search for answers after watching hours of Sunday news coverage of the riots after the death of George Floyd. Seventy-five protests across the…
View More The Death Of George Floyd-Riots-And What Happens Next?Aggressive Cops Or Politicians-Who Is Responsible For Strained Community Relations?
Highlights Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized for his controversial “stop and frisk” policy that sowed distrust of police during his administration. Cops continue…
View More Aggressive Cops Or Politicians-Who Is Responsible For Strained Community Relations?Are Political Charges Of Police Brutality And Racism Supported By Data?
Highlights There are charges of police brutality and institutionalized racism by Democratic candidates Biden, Sanders, and others. Per the US Department of Justice, among people…
View More Are Political Charges Of Police Brutality And Racism Supported By Data?Are Dramatic Reductions In Lower Level Arrests Increasing Violence?
Highlights Has the dramatic decrease in arrests for lower-level crimes led to the twenty-eight percent national increase in violent crimes? Will cops ever return to…
View More Are Dramatic Reductions In Lower Level Arrests Increasing Violence?Does Negative Publicity Regarding Cops Affect Reported Crime?
Highlights Does negative publicity about law enforcement hamper reported crime? Violent crime increased by significant numbers. There is no question that the US Department of…
View More Does Negative Publicity Regarding Cops Affect Reported Crime?We Are Running Out Of Cops Per A National Survey
Highlights There has been a 63% decrease in applicants applying to become a police officer per a national survey. Is the unceasing negative publicity about…
View More We Are Running Out Of Cops Per A National Survey85,000 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 TodayDoes Policing Change The Personalities Of Officers?
Observations Does policing change the personalities of officers? Most would suggest that it does. “Being a cop in a isn’t for sane people. Being a…
View More Does Policing Change The Personalities Of Officers?