Firearm Violence Statistics

USDOJ: A Record Increase in Violence “Or” Violent Crime Declined 3 Percent

Highlights As to crime in America, who do we believe, the FBI with its 3 percent decrease in violent crime, or the National Crime Victimization…

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Firearm Related Death Is More Acute For Black and Latino Men Than Deployed U.S. Soldiers

Is US Crime Really Declining? Or Is It A Lack Of Crime Reporting?

Highlights Is US crime really declining or is it a lack of reporting? Are we denying the reality of US crime? Are we dismissing the…

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A Crime Victim's Right To Owning An Offender's Name And Money

Correctional Supervision Decreased 23% Since 2012-Is There A Crime Connection?

Highlights Is there a connection between prison populations, correctional supervision and crime?  Based on the best available evidence from the US Department of Justice, it…

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Increasing Or decreasing Crime?

25 Examples Of Increasing Crime-Is Record Fear Of Crime Justified?

Highlights Data from the federal government and a variety of reputable sources indicate that violent and property crimes increased, not decreased in recent years. Dozens…

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120 Million Porch Package Thefts in 2024

Unmasking The Discrepancy: The Overlooked Surge in Violent Crime

Highlights A 44 percent increase in violence per the latest report (2022) from the National Crime Victimization Survey of the USDOJ would be the largest…

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Fear Of Crime

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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Fear Of Crime

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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Per Biden-A Harsh Reality For Progressives And Crime

Highlights A new reality is taking hold of President Biden and progressives; citizens and businesses are demanding safety. It’s a profound change from the presidential…

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Cops And Crime Are Driving The Midterm Elections-Latest Data

Highlights Based on data, one could easily make the case that cops, crime, and violence are “the” top emotional issues for US voters during the…

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Can You Change Violent Offenders? Crime in Washington, D.C.

Highlights D.C.’s mayor said she can bring gun violence down by 90 percent by focusing on “the people and places where most of the crime…

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New US Crime Data-Firearm Homicides Highest Since 1990s-Murders Up By 49 Percent Since 2019

Highlights For New Crime Data-2021 There is no doubt that homicides increased significantly in the United States in 2021, and this is after record increases…

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Firearm Violence Statistics

Violent Victimization Increases For Urban Areas in 2021 Per USDOJ

Highlights From 2020 to 2021, the violent victimization rate increased from 19.0 to 24.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons in urban areas while remaining unchanged in…

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A 50% Increase In Homicides-36% Increase In Aggravated Assaults

Highlights An overview of increasing violence and property crimes in the United States in 2022. The most recent yearly federal reports were for 2020. Per…

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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…

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The Best Evidence As To Why We Have Rapidly Increasing Violence

Highlights The justice system is based on deterrence through crime reporting, crime solving, arrests, prosecution, and accountability through the correctional system. Decreases in any of…

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Discovering That Growing Violence Doesn’t Have A Solution

Highlights Violent crime is rapidly rising. Violent criminals have little fear of being caught or held accountable. Mass shooters (the majority of which are street-level…

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Gun Violence-It’s Not What You Think-New DOJ Data

Highlights The overwhelming majority of violence doesn’t involve firearms. When firearms are used, the overwhelming majority of violence (including mass shootings) is committed with handguns.…

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Per Multiple Publications-“Dems Retreat On Crime And Police Reform”

Highlights Defunding the police and cutting the prison population in half are ideas rejected by the vast majority of Americans regardless of demographics. Democrats are…

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12,353 Police Employees Left Law Enforcement Along With 1,361 State Police Per BLS

Highlights Over 12,000 local police officers and employees have left their jobs per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Per separate BLS charts, there was an…

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