40% Decrease In Prison Admissions in 2020-Impact On Growing Violence

Highlights The correlation between new criminality and incarceration (or lack of incarceration) seems strong based on rapidly rising violence. The imprisonment rate for 2020 represented…

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Will Progressive Crime Policies Destroy Cities-And Democrats?

Highlights My “progressive” thought? Americans should live in peace and prosperity. You do that by holding criminal offenders accountable. Doubt that? Just ask the #MeToo…

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Firearm Offenders Have Highest Rate of New Crimes

Highlights Firearm offenders are arrested at the highest levels after release. Firearm use during crimes of violence is increasing. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired…

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Smash And Grab Robberies Won’t Be Stopped

Highlights Smash and grab robberies can’t be stopped per a former chief of police. He’s right. Here’s why. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal…

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Is Bail Reform Dying? 43 Percent Of Murder Suspects Bailed Or Out

Highlights Advocates claim there is no relationship between bail reform and increased crime. Police executives say the opposite. Who’s telling the truth? Either advocates for…

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Federal Recidivism-Dangerous Offenders Arrested More-Longer Sentences Means Less Crime

Highlights The recidivism rate of federal prison inmates hasn’t changed despite efforts to use graduated sanctions or other alternatives to incarceration. Probation, parole, and supervision…

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Recidivism of Offenders After Prison-A Quick Summation

Highlights A quick overview of the number of people rearrested and reincarcerated after release from prison. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal senior spokesperson.…

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Over Two Million Crimes By Released Prisoners After Ten Years

  Highlights-Ten Years After Release From Prison Most police chiefs are blaming increased crime on repeat offenders. Based on this and other data, they are…

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Does The US Have The Highest Rates Of Crime And Incarceration?

Highlights Does the US have the highest rates of crime and incarceration? Incarceration numbers going up in other countries while it’s declining in the United…

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Risk Assessment Still Has Issues Regarding Race Disparities

Correctional Populations Fell Dramatically During Rising Violence

Highlights Violent crime and serious violent crime began to increase by 28 percent in 2015 per the US Department of Justice. The US had the…

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DOJ-Massive Rearrests After Prison-Long Sentences Means Less Crime

Highlights Released prisoners who served less time had higher arrest rates. During the five-year follow-up period, an estimated 1.1 million arrests occurred among the approximately…

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The Crime Counter-Revolution Has Begun

Highlights Violent crime is exploding. Fear is at an all-time high. Firearm and security sales are going through the roof. People are leaving cities. Progressives…

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The Family And Community Pipeline to Crime

Highlights “I think for a lot of us, we don’t realize how we become dangerous to other humans because we do not care about ourselves,…

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The President’s Plan for Violence Interruption Lacks Proof

Quote “If our ideas are not evolving with verifiable evidence, they are not reliable ideas.”― Carmine Savastano. Highlights There’s little proof that violence interruption programs work.…

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The President Knows His Crime Plan Won’t Work

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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Mental Health Issues Drive Crime-Most Offenders Have Symptoms

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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Most Prisoners Serve Less Than Two Years-Violent Serve Less Than Three

Highlights An overview of time served in prison from the US Department of Justice. Most offenders are out of prison in less than two years.…

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Criminal Histories And Recidivism Of Armed Career Criminals

Highlights The overwhelming majority of armed career criminals had prior convictions for violent offenses. The article is part of an ongoing series addressing repeat-violent-career criminals.…

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