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Tag: Crime Statistics
Cops Believe That Cities Are Cooking The Books On Crime
Highlights Cops and others in the justice system believe that reported decreases in crime are wrong. They believe that crime is increasing. If the Oakland…
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Is FBI Data An Accurate Portrayal Of Crime?
Highlights Is there a corollary between the media’s lack of coverage of the President’s cognitive abilities before the debate and their inaccurate portrayal of crime…
View More Is FBI Data An Accurate Portrayal Of Crime?National Crime Statistics And Media Reports Are Getting Wacky
Highlights Is crime increasing or decreasing? According to reports from the US Department of Justice, it’s both. Understanding national crime data is getting harder than…
View More National Crime Statistics And Media Reports Are Getting WackyEverything You Wanted To Know About Mass Shootings-National Institute Of Justice
Highlights A new report funded by the National Institute of Justice describes the characteristics of mass shooters. There seem to be similarities with mass shooters,…
View More Everything You Wanted To Know About Mass Shootings-National Institute Of JusticeAre Progressives Responsible For Exploding Violence?
Quotes Dallas, Texas: When I asked chief Garcia what explained the rise in crime in the first half of 2021 and its decline in the…
View More Are Progressives Responsible For Exploding Violence?Homicides-Violent Crime-Aggravated Assaults Increased in 2020 Per FBI
Highlights Per FBI preliminary statistics for 2020, there was a 25 percent increase in homicides. Per FBI preliminary statistics for 2020, overall violent crime increased…
View More Homicides-Violent Crime-Aggravated Assaults Increased in 2020 Per FBIViolent Crime Declines For The First Half of 2019
Highlights Statistics show overall declines in both violent and property crime in the first half of 2019 compared to the same time frame the previous…
View More Violent Crime Declines For The First Half of 2019The Vast Majority Of Violent Crime Does Not Involve Firearms
Editors Note: This article has been updated. See, Gun Violence-Firearms Used During Mass Shootings And Street Crimes. Highlights The collective federal data indicate that except…
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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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Who’s Right on Crime?
Observations Antonin (Anthony) Scalia (deceased) and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (current) were friends and Associate Justices for the U.S. Supreme Court. They were fierce ideological opponents. Both agreed that their…
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Why Violent Crime Increased
Observations To the tens of thousands of victims of increasing violent crime, telling them that, statistically, they have never lived in safer times seems uncouth…
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As Predicted, Violent Crime Increased in 2016
Observations Numerous newspaper editorials and many advocates disputed reports of rising crime, saying that we have never lived in safer times. But hundreds of…
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Crime, Pessimism, Baltimore And Past Lessons
Observations Do current events influence our ability to lead and to see things clearly? Success won’t come from the media or advocates or the criminological…
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Why Do We Lie About Crime?
Observation Is dishonesty an inherent part of crime discussions? Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Thirty-five years of speaking for national and state criminal justice agencies.…
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Why Do We Lie About Increasing Violence?
Observations It’s so obvious that violent crime is increasing that when I’m told otherwise, I get nauseous. Note: Crime reports for the United States for…
View More Why Do We Lie About Increasing Violence?Can Communities Control Crime? The Baltimore Experiment
Subtitles “Are you saying you can’t keep your hood safe?” Cops want communities to take responsibility for their own crime problems. Gang members called Ceasefire…
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Top Months for Violent and Property Crime
Subtitle There is updated data on this website. Please use the search button. June and warm weather months have the most crime. Author Leonard Adam…
View More Top Months for Violent and Property CrimeCrime in mid-size metropolitan areas rising faster than larger metro areas
Crime in America.Net Dear readers. We keep getting inquiries about city and state crime comparisons and we keep saying that it’s really difficult to make…
View More Crime in mid-size metropolitan areas rising faster than larger metro areasState and national crime statistics for the last 50 years
Crime in America.Net Dear Readers: Below you will find what may be one of the best tools available to look at and manipulate-analyze crime data…
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