Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. There are distinctions between legal and illegal immigration and crime. Separating the two is necessary for…
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Category: Victimization
What Groups Are Victimized the Most By Crime? Crime’s Shifting Landscape
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Criminal offenders gravitate to people, places, and things perceived as easier targets with successful or bigger…
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Artificial Intelligence: Transforming Law Enforcement And The Justice System
Highlights Artificial Intelligence (AI) will soon be a significant part of the lives of people in law enforcement and the rest of the justice…
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How Many People With Criminal Histories Do We Interact With Daily?
Highlights You, your spouse, and your children interact daily with people who have criminal histories. Acknowledging this and evaluating potentially menacing or uncomfortable situations keeps…
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Parole And Probation: Dangers, Realities, and the Need for Change
Highlights There’s no national consensus as to what we want from parole and probation employees or agencies. Parole and probation agents supervise and…
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We Ignore The USDOJ’s 44 Percent Increase In Violent Crime-Why?
Highlights “The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is the nation’s primary source of information on criminal victimization,” the US Census Bureau. No one is saying…
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The Distressing Status Of Arrests, Crimes Solved And Incarcerations
Highlights For the first time in many years, incarcerations and arrests, seem to be increasing with a slight expansion of police officers after losing 25,000…
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How Many Crimes Are Prosecuted In The United States?
Highlights Most crimes involve reduced charges or dropped or deferred prosecutions. Concessions through plea-bargains, dropped charges, and limited prison sentences are seen as necessary to…
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Update-The FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System Greatly Improves
Highlights We are on the verge of a new and better way of analyzing crime data through the FBI’s emerging National Incident-Based Reporting System. But…
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Millions Of Crimes Are Not Included In FBI Yearly Reports
Highlights This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. Understanding crime numbers and rates in America isn’t easy. Per FBI data, crime is down.…
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120 Million Porch Package Thefts–More Than All FBI Property Crimes
Highlights There are 120 million porch package thefts in the US. Searches for “stolen package” spike every December, according to Google Trends. The survey indicated…
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Is The Effort To Control Or Ban Handguns Over?
Highlights Nine percent of violent crimes involve firearms per the USDOJ. Nonfatal firearm violence has dropped considerably. 400 million Americans own firearms. Support for a…
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Firearm Violence Statistics–281,000 Victims Used Firearms To Defend Themselves
Highlights In 2023, the rate of nonfatal firearm violence was 2.0 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older, down 72% from 7.3 per 1,000…
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Cops, Crime And Why Trump Won-Per Pundits, The Left Is “Out Of Touch”
Listen to a podcast of this article on Spotify or view it on YouTube. Quotes Democratic strategist James Carville, “defund the police” were “the three…
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USDOJ: Record Increase in Violence “Or” Violent Crime Declined 10 Percent For January-June 2024
Highlights The FBI released six months of reported crime data for 2024. The reasons for treating the data cautiously are below. This article covers three…
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USDOJ: A Record Increase in Violence “Or” Violent Crime Declined 3 Percent
Highlights As to crime in America, who do we believe, the FBI with its 3 percent decrease in violent crime, or the National Crime Victimization…
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Are Police Agencies “In Shambles” Affecting Crime Reporting?
Highlights Are law enforcement staffing levels affecting reported crime? Are there additional reasons for reduced reported crime via the FBI? Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr.…
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40 Million Yearly Crime Victimizations-Millions Experience Emotional Distress
Highlights A podcast of this article is available on YouTube. In the last report from the National Crime Victimization Survey, there were 6,624,950 victims of violent…
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Crime Is The Number One Reason For Families Moving
Highlights Americans say a low crime rate (68%), low housing and living costs (66%), and good weather (62%) make a place desirable to live. Americans…
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Is US Crime Really Declining? Or Is It A Lack Of Crime Reporting?
Highlights Is US crime really declining or is it a lack of reporting? Are we denying the reality of US crime? Are we dismissing the…
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