Highlights New numbers of law enforcement agencies and personnel from the US Department of Justice. The collective data indicate that local policing in America is…
View More Rate Of Cops Decreases Per USDOJ-A Connection To Rising Violence?Category: Victimization
New US Crime Data-Firearm Homicides Highest Since 1990s-Murders Up By 49 Percent Since 2019
Highlights For New Crime Data-2021 There is no doubt that homicides increased significantly in the United States in 2021, and this is after record increases…
View More New US Crime Data-Firearm Homicides Highest Since 1990s-Murders Up By 49 Percent Since 2019
Violent Victimization Increases For Urban Areas in 2021 Per USDOJ
Highlights From 2020 to 2021, the violent victimization rate increased from 19.0 to 24.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons in urban areas while remaining unchanged in…
View More Violent Victimization Increases For Urban Areas in 2021 Per USDOJA 50% Increase In Homicides-36% Increase In Aggravated Assaults
Highlights An overview of increasing violence and property crimes in the United States in 2022. The most recent yearly federal reports were for 2020. Per…
View More A 50% Increase In Homicides-36% Increase In Aggravated Assaults
Older Offenders-Riskier Than You Think
Highlights There were 546,000 older offenders arrested for criminal activity in 2019 per the FBI. High percentages of older offenders are arrested after release from…
View More Older Offenders-Riskier Than You Think
Red Flag Laws And Other Impossible Police-Justice Reforms
Highlights Red flag laws are impossible to effectively enforce. We within the justice system knew that when they were introduced. What most want in terms…
View More Red Flag Laws And Other Impossible Police-Justice ReformsGun Violence And The Dangerous Nature Of Firearm Offenders
Highlights Firearm offenders are generally younger, have a more extensive criminal history, and are more likely to commit a new crime than other offenders. 93.6…
View More Gun Violence And The Dangerous Nature Of Firearm OffendersBig Increases in Crime In 2022-Homicides Decrease Slightly
Highlights When considering the crime categories with the largest numbers (aggravated assaults, larcenies, robberies, vehicle thefts, burglaries), the early indicators suggest an increase in overall…
View More Big Increases in Crime In 2022-Homicides Decrease SlightlyHow Many Nonfatal Shootings End In An Arrest?
Highlights Per the examples below, the vast majority of nonfatal shootings do not end in an arrest. It will take money, technology, public support, and…
View More How Many Nonfatal Shootings End In An Arrest?Females And Groups Victimized More By Crime
Highlights Some groups are victimized considerably more than others. Others have low rates of violence but have high rates of property crimes. Per the Bureau…
View More Females And Groups Victimized More By CrimeLong Prison Sentences Reduce Crime Per Federal Study
Highlights Released offenders committed well over two million new crimes per the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The odds of recidivism were approximately 29 percent lower…
View More Long Prison Sentences Reduce Crime Per Federal StudyThe Best Evidence As To Why We Have Rapidly Increasing Violence
Highlights The justice system is based on deterrence through crime reporting, crime solving, arrests, prosecution, and accountability through the correctional system. Decreases in any of…
View More The Best Evidence As To Why We Have Rapidly Increasing ViolenceDiscovering That Growing Violence Doesn’t Have A Solution
Highlights Violent crime is rapidly rising. Violent criminals have little fear of being caught or held accountable. Mass shooters (the majority of which are street-level…
View More Discovering That Growing Violence Doesn’t Have A SolutionThe CDC’s Homicide-Firearms Data Creates A Firestorm Of Media Misinformation
Highlights Why are firearms the key or only element of crime discussions? Are there an array of issues we are ignoring? Why does the media…
View More The CDC’s Homicide-Firearms Data Creates A Firestorm Of Media Misinformation23 Million Americans Are Victims Of Identity Theft Costing Over 15 Billion Dollars
Highlights Per the USDOJ, 23 million persons reported that they had been victims of identity theft during the prior 12 months costing $15.1 billion. Based…
View More 23 Million Americans Are Victims Of Identity Theft Costing Over 15 Billion DollarsPublic Opinion And Crime-Fear-Policy And Politics
Highlights Polling by Gallup showed that violent crime is a concern among 80% of Americans. National and local perceptions/fear about crime are at or near…
View More Public Opinion And Crime-Fear-Policy And PoliticsGun Violence-It’s Not What You Think-New DOJ Data
Highlights The overwhelming majority of violence doesn’t involve firearms. When firearms are used, the overwhelming majority of violence (including mass shootings) is committed with handguns.…
View More Gun Violence-It’s Not What You Think-New DOJ Data
Decriminalization-One Percent Of Drug Users Ask For Treatment-Overdose Deaths Soar
Highlights In Oregon, only 1 percent of people who received citations for possessing hard drugs asked for treatment. Half showed up for court. State health…
View More Decriminalization-One Percent Of Drug Users Ask For Treatment-Overdose Deaths SoarMost Americans Are Victimized By Crime-National Crime Victims’ Rights Week
Highlights National Crime Victims Rights Week is April 24-30. Most Americans are victimized by crime. We examine a survey of 711 crime survivors in California;…
View More Most Americans Are Victimized By Crime-National Crime Victims’ Rights WeekPer Multiple Publications-“Dems Retreat On Crime And Police Reform”
Highlights Defunding the police and cutting the prison population in half are ideas rejected by the vast majority of Americans regardless of demographics. Democrats are…
View More Per Multiple Publications-“Dems Retreat On Crime And Police Reform”