Highlights Cops are not there to solve society’s problems. The pressure from citizens, communities, media, advocates and politicians are simply too much for most law…
View More Law Enforcement And Corrections Have LimitsTag: crime
Mental Illness, Mass Shootings And Everyday Crime
Highlights The vast majority of our discussions about crime, mass shootings, police encounters that go wrong, treatment failures and recidivism may be explained by the…
View More Mental Illness, Mass Shootings And Everyday CrimeThe Many Myths Of Crime And Justice
Highlights Much of what we believe about crime and criminal justice issues isn’t true. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal senior spokesperson. Thirty-five years…
View More The Many Myths Of Crime And JusticeAre You Safe In Your Home?
Questions How safe are you in your home from burglary and violent crime? What about places near your home or the residence of another? What…
View More Are You Safe In Your Home?Seventy-Five Percent of Americans Worry About Crime
Highlights When 75 percent of Americans worry about crime, and when related issues of guns and drug use also score high, it’s an indication that…
View More Seventy-Five Percent of Americans Worry About CrimeAmericans Increasingly Satisfied With Crime Reductions
violent crime Highlights There may be a glimmer of hope that crime and citizen perceptions may be getting better. An overview of recent polls as…
View More Americans Increasingly Satisfied With Crime ReductionsViolent Crime Stats Explained-Violence Down For 2018
Highlights Per the FBI, there is a decrease of 4.3 percent in the number of violent crimes brought to their attention for the first 6…
View More Violent Crime Stats Explained-Violence Down For 2018Are Cops Afraid To Make Arrests?
Highlights There is a variety of data suggesting that police officers are less willing to engage in proactive or self-initiated arrests. An estimated 150,000 cops show up…
View More Are Cops Afraid To Make Arrests?Trump and Pelosi Declare A Violent Crime Crisis in The US
Highlights Thanks to Speaker Pelosi and President Trump, we have confirmation from the right and left that we have a violent crime crisis in…
View More Trump and Pelosi Declare A Violent Crime Crisis in The USCitizens-Not Cops-Need To Do More To Control Violent Crime
Baltimore Police Motorcycles Highlights We are in danger of losing cities to violent crime. There may be points of no return for decades. The future…
View More Citizens-Not Cops-Need To Do More To Control Violent CrimeIs America Entering a New Era of Increasing Violence?
Highlights America may be entering a new era of increasing violent crime. The number of persons who had been victims of violent crime is up…
View More Is America Entering a New Era of Increasing Violence?Violent Crime Victims and Offenders
Highlights Many reader questions regarding violent crime victims and offenders are answered by a recent report from the National Crime Survey from the Bureau of…
View More Violent Crime Victims and OffendersViolent Crime Increasing in the US
Highlights Violent crime is increasing. For the National Crime Survey, most of the sixteen categories of violent crime rates increased from 2015 to 2017. First…
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24% Of American Households Victimized By Crime in 2018
Police Van Highlights 24% of households were victimized by violent or property crimes (excluding cybercrimes) in 2018, up from the 22% who said the same last…
View More 24% Of American Households Victimized By Crime in 2018Crime Will Play A Major Role in the Midterm Elections
Crime and Congress Highlights 78 percent of Americans worry about crime and violence a great deal or a fair amount, the same as health…
View More Crime Will Play A Major Role in the Midterm ElectionsWe Can’t Agree on Basic Facts When Discussing Crime
Observations How to communicate effectively when people can’t agree on basic facts. Media and public relations are best served when we acknowledge that people hold…
View More We Can’t Agree on Basic Facts When Discussing CrimeThe Public Is Responsible for Crime-Not Cops
Observations Cops take the heat for rising crime, but that emphasis is misplaced. It’s communities that control crime. This is criminology 101. But if you…
View More The Public Is Responsible for Crime-Not CopsBaltimore 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 PolicingMassive Child Sex Abuse and Crime
Observations Child sex abuse and physical violence is part of the experience of 80-90 percent of women offenders. The sexual abuse history of women offenders…
View More Massive Child Sex Abuse and CrimeFacebook 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?