Highlights Does Mr. Biden have any police or crime control options that will not cost him politically? To rebuild high poverty areas and to create…
View More Biden’s Crime And Police Agenda Is Filled With LandminesTag: law enforcement
How Americans Feel About Law Enforcement
Highlights Polling data show a mixed bag of results regarding public perceptions of law enforcement, some is harshly negative, some (based on interactions) is quite…
View More How Americans Feel About Law EnforcementJuvenile Arrests 70 Percent Below Peak-Adult Arrests Plummet
Highlights Arrests of adults and juveniles are down considerably. Why? What impact does this have on growing violence in cities? Is intense criticism of cops…
View More Juvenile Arrests 70 Percent Below Peak-Adult Arrests PlummetPer Gallup, The Majority Of Americans Rate Police Encounters As Positive, Respectful and Fair
Highlights The data from a variety of sources indicate that those coming into contact with law enforcement (rather than a general public opinion poll) rate…
View More Per Gallup, The Majority Of Americans Rate Police Encounters As Positive, Respectful and FairUse of Force, Training And Costs For Police Agencies Per The USDOJ
Highlights-Police Policies Training, costs, community policing, use of force, use of blunt force projectiles (i.e., bean bags-rubber bullets), use of chemical agents (tear gas), active…
View More Use of Force, Training And Costs For Police Agencies Per The USDOJPeople And Businesses Leaving Cities Because Of Disturbances And Crime
Highlights People are leaving cities because of riots, crime and COVID. “The coronavirus is not the only reason those major cities are seeing an exodus…All…
View More People And Businesses Leaving Cities Because Of Disturbances And CrimeCongressional Committee-Is There Is A Potential Street War Brewing?
Highlights (abbreviated quotes-sources below) “I think we are coming into very dangerous waters over the next couple of months” “This is serious. I haven’t seen…
View More Congressional Committee-Is There Is A Potential Street War Brewing?81 Percent Express Confidence in Police Yet Polls Show Declines And Disparities
Highlights When adding all three categories in a recent Gallup poll, a great deal of confidence, quite a lot, and some, 81 percent expressed a…
View More 81 Percent Express Confidence in Police Yet Polls Show Declines And DisparitiesFunding Reduced For Most Police Agencies-Violence Increasing
Highlights Few law enforcement agencies, regardless of size, are being spared. It’s being called a “perfect storm” and the biggest budget cuts in a decade.…
View More Funding Reduced For Most Police Agencies-Violence IncreasingWhat The Public Thinks About Police Reform And Defunding
Highlights Per Gallup, “Most Americans Say Policing Needs Major Changes.” Every day brings more protests and endless videos of riots, looting, arson, graffiti, and assaults…
View More What The Public Thinks About Police Reform And DefundingSocial Workers And Cops-We Can’t Be All Things To All People
Highlights “We have a joke in policing, that cops hate two things: change and the way things are,” (social media response). Any sense that cops…
View More Social Workers And Cops-We Can’t Be All Things To All PeopleDefunding The Police? It Already Happened-Law Enforcement Expenditures Since 2000
Highlights National police spending has been relatively flat or has decreased in recent years. There is a twenty-eight percent increase in violence (with serious violent…
View More Defunding The Police? It Already Happened-Law Enforcement Expenditures Since 2000Social Workers Need To Step Up And Replace Cops
Highlights If you want to significantly reduce use of force issues in policing, social workers need to respond to many crisis situations. Being a cop…
View More Social Workers Need To Step Up And Replace CopsPer Cops-No Justice-No Peace
Highlights No justice no peace? That’s what cops are saying to themselves by forgoing proactively. As a result, violence is increasing. If you condemn all…
View More Per Cops-No Justice-No PeaceIs Crime Control Dead?
Highlights If crime control is no longer the priority then be prepared for major changes that citizens will find abhorrent. There has to be some…
View More Is Crime Control Dead?Public Confidence In The Police Is Stronger Than You Think
Highlights The recruitment of cops is down 63 percent. Officers are calling in sick throughout the country. A DC police union survey says 71 percent…
View More Public Confidence In The Police Is Stronger Than You ThinkArrests and Police Contacts Plummet While Violence Increases
Highlights Per the US Department of Justice, violent crime increased 28 percent since 2015. Serious violent crime is also increasing. This is happening while arrests…
View More Arrests and Police Contacts Plummet While Violence IncreasesCamden-The Most Violent City In New Jersey
Highlights A search for answers after the death of George Floyd and the black lives matter protests. Camden, NJ, is being touted as a success…
View More Camden-The Most Violent City In New JerseyDefunding The Police-What Cops Support
Highlights A search for answers after the death of George Floyd and the black lives matter protests. The problem with defunding law enforcement is that…
View More Defunding The Police-What Cops SupportCops And The George Floyd Disturbances-Is It Time To Leave?
Highlights A search for answers after the death of George Floyd. If America now believes that all cops are the problem, why would they stay?…
View More Cops And The George Floyd Disturbances-Is It Time To Leave?