Highlights Per new research, if you don’t trust cops, you’re less likely to report crimes. But people don’t report crimes for a wide variety of…
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Most Violent Prisoners Serve Less Than Three Years in Prison
Highlights More than half (57 percent) of violent offenders served less than three years in prison per a new DOJ report. The average time an…
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The Criminally Insane, The Mentally Ill And Crime
Highlights Most offenders have forms of depression, anxiety, PTSD, brain injuries and mental illness. Cops and correctional officers wonder why situations deteriorate so quickly.…
View More The Criminally Insane, The Mentally Ill And Crime#MeToo Collides With Kavanaugh And Justice Reform
Highlights Accountability for offenders committing acts of violence against women is necessary. But criminal responsibility is gender neutral. Legally, what you do for one, you…
View More #MeToo Collides With Kavanaugh And Justice ReformWe Demand That Cops Be Warriors
Observations If the public demands quick resolutions to school and mass shootings or acts of terrorism, they are also insisting on military training and equipment.…
View More We Demand That Cops Be WarriorsViolence, School Achievement and Future Criminality
Observations Schoolchildren exposed to violence have a tougher time learning. Violence also affects the success of people caught up in the criminal justice system. If…
View More Violence, School Achievement and Future CriminalityBaltimore Crime And American Policing
Background USA Today offered an analysis addressing why Baltimore has become America’s deadliest city. Their article examined police “disengagement” as an explanation for the profound…
View More Baltimore Crime And American PolicingDoes Anything Work in Parole and Probation?
Observation As we celebrate parole and probation week, don’t agents (and society) deserve more than a system that seems hopelessly adrift? Author Leonard Adam Sipes,…
View More Does Anything Work in Parole and Probation?US Ranks Third For Women And Sexual Violence
Observation Thomson Reuters-“The only Western nation in the top 10 was the United States, which ranked joint third when respondents were asked where women were most…
View More US Ranks Third For Women And Sexual ViolenceDoes #Metoo Apply To All Violent Victimizations?
Observations If the #metoo movement wants sexual abusers held accountable, why doesn’t the same philosophy apply to all violent crime offenders? Is one violent victim…
View More Does #Metoo Apply To All Violent Victimizations?Offenders Have Multiple Convictions-Six for Federal Defendants
Summation Almost three-quarters (72.8%) of federal offenders sentenced in fiscal year 2016 had been convicted of a prior offense. The average number of previous…
View More Offenders Have Multiple Convictions-Six for Federal DefendantsFacebook Bans Violence, Crime and Criminal Behavior-Is That Possible?
Observations Facebook is banning violence, crime and criminal behaviors from its platform (see guidelines below). Social media is now a super-highway for mass murderers and…
View More Facebook Bans Violence, Crime and Criminal Behavior-Is That Possible?Mouthy Offenders And Violence
Prison Cells Observations Per data, offenders can be verbal, intoxicated people who overreact to perceived provocations that result in criminal violence. We see crime…
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Police Strategies Reduce Crime-New Study
Observations A podcast of this article is available on YouTube. This may be considered “the” definitive study of policing tactics as I update this article…
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Texas Shooter: Number of Accurate Criminal Records Is Staggeringly Low
Observations “According to the Department of Justice, the number of these records that are actually uploaded is staggeringly low…” ”Even the FBI acknowledges that its…
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Personal Crime Flat Per Gallup
Observation If you are looking for a national summation of data, violent crime is up per the FBI, property crime is down in all three…
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GPS and Social Media Surveillance-Best Hope for Corrections?
Observations Electronic monitoring data on reductions of technical violations and returns to prison indicate the possibility of a more effective and humane way to…
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Race and Violent Crime
Observation Half (51 percent) of violent victimizations from 2012 to 2015 were intraracial. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Thirty-five years of speaking for national and…
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Harvey Weinstein-Why We Refuse To Acknowledge Abused Women Offenders
Observations The history of sexual and physical violence directed to women offenders (especially during childhood) is considerable. Add neglect, and it indicates that most…
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Saving Offender Rehabilitation and Reentry Programs
Observations I’m suggesting that we focus almost exclusively on mental health and the co-occurring issue of substance abuse. With budget limitations, we can’t be…
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