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: Violent Offenders
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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Is It Possible To Safely Release Violent Prison Inmates Early?
Highlights This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. This is a national story as several states contemplate reducing sentences for violent offenders. Per…
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Is Policing The Toughest Job In America?
Highlights Americans have considerable mental health and substance problems plus an inability to behave well per data. These issues have implications for police-civilian encounters. About…
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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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How To Get Answers To Your Crime And Justice Questions
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube Podcast. A guide to getting answers to crime and justice questions. Most in state and local justice…
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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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Cops And Crime Control–Does Society Know What It Wants?
Highlights We must decide what we want from law enforcement before we lose thousands of additional cops and endanger public safety. At the moment, proactive…
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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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The Average Time Served in State Prisons Is 1.3 Years
Highlights The median (average) time served in state prison for all offenses is 1.3 years. This article is available via a podcast on YouTube. Author…
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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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The United States Lost Over 25,000 Local Police Personnel
Highlights Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicate the considerable loss of police officers in recent years. BLS Charts are below. Tens of…
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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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Thank You For 15 Years of Crime In America.Net
Highlights CrimeInAmerica.Net is 15 years old. I appreciate your support. A list of accomplishments is below. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Former Senior Specialist for…
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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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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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Female Crime Statistics–Violent Victimization For Females Often Exceeds Males
Highlights The rate of violence against females in the US often exceeds that of males. That wasn’t the case in the past. 85,000 Women Were…
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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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