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.…
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Defunding 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 2000“Broke-American Justice on the Ropes”
Crime in America.Net I was called this morning and told to look at CNN. Their lead story was about Camden, New Jersey and the fact…
View More “Broke-American Justice on the Ropes”Disbanding Police Departments-Selling Prisons-More on Criminal Justice Budget Cuts
Gentlereaders: It’s been a while since we did an update on the budget crisis and its impact on the criminal justice system. But we read…
View More Disbanding Police Departments-Selling Prisons-More on Criminal Justice Budget CutsThe Illinois Prison System: Dividing the Loaves and Fishes
Crime in America.Net The Chicago Tribune ran an article on the resignation of the director of the Illinois correctional system who instituted a series of…
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