If Crime Is Down, Why Is Fear Up? Can Anyone Explain This?

Cities Ranked For Fear Of Crime-Do Crime Rates Impact Fear?

Highlights Gallup offers a poll on perceptions of crime-related safety for 16 American cities.  Do one-year reductions or increases in city crime rates or totals…

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We Ignore The USDOJ's Largest National Increase In Violent Crime-Why?

Violent Criminal Victimization By Race Or Hispanic Origin

Highlights An overview of rates and numbers of violent criminal victimizations by race and heritage, all common questions from politicians, students, and the media. Author…

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Increasing Violent Crime

Concern Over Violent and Property Crime Data For 2023

Highlights As crime continues to spike in Oakland, demands for action from city and community leaders are growing louder. Statistics show that not only is crime…

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State Per Person Spending On Law Enforcement

Did Homicides and Violence Decrease In 2023?

Highlights There is data stating that homicides and violence are down for select cities for the first half of 2023. Ten cities experienced an increase…

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If Crime Is Down, Why Is Fear Up? Can Anyone Explain This?

Are Mayors Getting Tough On Crime And Criminals?

Highlights “Biden bucks liberals and tells Democrats to get tough on crime.” “We are in a state of emergency right now.” “I think that people…

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American Opinions Of Law Enforcement

Will People Stop Calling The Police? Response Times Increase Dramatically

Highlights The dynamics of response times have real implications for law enforcement policy. Community-based policing is promoted in just about every research study to improve…

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Should parents be held responsible for their child's crimes?

Are Billions Of Dollars In Community-Based Violence Programs Worth The Expenditure?

Highlights There’s nothing wrong with trying new community-based crime control strategies. The problem is what seems intuitive to so many doesn’t mean that programs will…

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Law Enforcement Officers Face A 54 Percent Higher Risk Of Dying By Suicide

Law Enforcement Agencies Continue To Lose Police Officers

Highlights With rising violence in urban areas and thousands of police officers leaving their jobs because of immense negative publicity stereotyping “all” police officers for…

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Is It Possible To Safely Release Prison Inmates Early After Committing Murders?

Did The The DOJ Just Solve The Problem Of Massive Offender Recidivism?

Highlights The USDOJ states that they have programs that massively reduce offender recidivism (arrests and incarceration after prison).  I assume that the DOJ will now…

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Gun Violence-Firearms Used During Mass Shootings And Street Crimes

Highlights A summation of firearms used during street crimes and mass shootings. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal senior spokesperson. Thirty-five years of directing…

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What causes murders and aggravated assaults?

Does The Media Provide Too Much Information On Mass Shooters?

Highlights Is the media giving the public too much information on mass shooters? There’s a case to be made that they are and that’s propagating…

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How Many People With Criminal Histories Do We Interact With Daily?

Women Offenders-Over Half Of Violent Females Were Arrested Within 5 Years Of Release

Highlights More than half of females (55%, compared to 66% of males) who were serving time for a violent offense were arrested for another offense.…

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State Per Person Spending On Law Enforcement

Deaths During Arrests Or Correctional Custody

Highlights Decedents injured or attempted to injure federal law enforcement officers in 59% of arrest-related deaths and discharged a firearm in 41% in FY 2020.…

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If Crime Is Down, Why Is Fear Up? Can Anyone Explain This?

Sending The Wrong Messages to Criminals: “They Know They’re Untouchable.”

Highlights “They Can’t Touch the Criminals. They Know They’re Untouchable.” Washington Post article on Baltimore violence. Offenders understand that the rules governing them have softened…

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How Many People Are Victimized By Crime Each Year

African American Confidence In Law Enforcement

  Highlights Approximately 70 to 89 percent of Black respondents provided positive ratings of law enforcement ranging from a willingness to contact police in the…

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Is It Possible To Safely Release Prison Inmates Early After Committing Murders?

Prison Inmates-9 Prior Arrests-4 Million Total Arrests-42 Percent Had 5-10 Incarcerations

  Highlights This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. The 369,200 persons admitted to state prison in 34 states had an estimated 4.2…

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