Highlights
An explanation of recent and older crime and fear of crime statistics and research for the layperson.
Most federal crime reports and websites are intricate and difficult to read and understand, the reason for creating this report.
Author
Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr.
Author of ”Success With The Media: Everything You Need To Survive Reporters and Your Organization” available at Amazon and additional booksellers.
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Violent and Property Crime Rates In The U.S.-Updated
Yes, crime statistics can be complex and confusing. My goal was to place recent and long-range crime data in a fairly short document that anyone can understand. It includes fear of crime and a variety of additional topics
See Violent and Property Crime Rates In The U.S. for the full report.
I have close to 40 years of experience summarizing crime data for presidents, governors, organizations, the media, and everyday people. I provided crime and criminal justice data during thousands of media interviews.
I summarized crime and justice issues for dignitaries and practitioners when I worked for two US Department of Justice-funded agencies, The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (senior specialist for crime prevention) and the National Crime Prevention Council (director of information services).
I supplied overviews of crime and criminal justice topics to every national and international media source for 35 years as a director of public information for state criminal justice agencies and the national entities cited above.
I take the complicated topics of crime and justice and offer observations and research summations that the non-criminologist can understand based on my academic and criminal justice experience including six years in law enforcement.
There is significant intricacy when discussing crime statistics. Analyzing crime becomes complex because readers must go to multiple reports or locations to understand primary sources.
I try to answer most crime and fear of crime questions here.
Contents
Page 1: Subsections Of This Report
Page 2: Context For This Report–What You Need to Understand
Page 3: Property Crime
Page 4 Summations Of Recent Crime Data, 2021-2024
Page 5: Historic Lows For Crime
Page 6: Crime Data From City Police Crime Dashboards
Page 7: FBI’s New Method Of Collecting and Reporting Crime Data
Page 8: Explaining The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey
Page 9: Who’s Impacted By Crime?
Page 10: Violent Crime Never Increased?
Page 11: We Have Never Lived In Safer Times?
Page 12: The Complexity Of Crime Statistics
Page 13: Fear Of Crime
Page 14: Identity Theft-Cybercrime
Page 15: Federal Crime Data Presented Before National Elections
Page 16: Repeat Victimizations
Page 17: Brief Summations of FBI and National Crime Victimization Survey Data By Year
Page 18: Extended Summations Of FBI and National Crime Victimization Survey Data By Year
Page 19: Links To Sources For FBI and National Crime Victimization Survey Data By Year
Page 20: Data From Gallup
Page 21:Three National Measures of Violence-The FBI, the National Crime Victimization Survey, And Gallup
Page 22: Appendix-Media Reports on Crime
Conclusions
This report was designed to be of service to the average reader. Crime data can be difficult to find, read, and understand. There are endless interpretations and opinions about crime statistics. It sometimes seems like an impossible topic to grasp. The goal was to make the data as simple and accessible as possible.
Comments and corrections are welcomed.
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