Highlights The Bureau of Justice Statistics states that the violent victimization rate dropped 22 percent in 2020. This is the largest decrease in violence ever reported…
View More DOJ: Largest Increase In Homicides-Largest Decrease in Violence-Confused?Tag: FBI
Homicides-Violent Crime-Aggravated Assaults Increased in 2020 Per FBI
Highlights Per FBI preliminary statistics for 2020, there was a 25 percent increase in homicides. Per FBI preliminary statistics for 2020, overall violent crime increased…
View More Homicides-Violent Crime-Aggravated Assaults Increased in 2020 Per FBIAre Advocates Ignoring Victims Of Violent Crime?
Highlights Most of what I read about crime is advocacy. When it comes to objectivity, there are an endless variety of crime-related organizations offering data…
View More Are Advocates Ignoring Victims Of Violent Crime?Counting Crime in America Could Get Contentious
Highlights Newsy has learned the FBI is going to stop collecting crime data for its Uniform Crime Report (UCR) from an estimated one in four…
View More Counting Crime in America Could Get ContentiousTexas Shooter: Number of Accurate Criminal Records Is Staggeringly Low
Observations “According to the Department of Justice, the number of these records that are actually uploaded is staggeringly low…” ”Even the FBI acknowledges that its…
View More Texas Shooter: Number of Accurate Criminal Records Is Staggeringly LowRace and Violent Crime
Police Van Observation Half (51 percent) of violent victimizations from 2012 to 2015 were intraracial. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Thirty-five years of speaking for…
View More Race and Violent CrimeWhy Violent Crime Increased
Observations To the tens of thousands of victims of increasing violent crime, telling them that, statistically, they have never lived in safer times seems uncouth…
View More Why Violent Crime IncreasedAs Predicted, Violent Crime Increased in 2016
Observations Numerous newspaper editorials and many advocates disputed reports of rising crime, saying that we have never lived in safer times. But hundreds of articles…
View More As Predicted, Violent Crime Increased in 2016Police Officer Deaths Increase Dramatically in 2016 and 2017
Subtitles The FBI documents a 61 percent increase in officers feloniously killed in the line of duty in 2016. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund…
View More Police Officer Deaths Increase Dramatically in 2016 and 2017Negative Publicity Affects Policing Per FBI and Pew
Subtitle Are Cops Backing Down? The FBI and Pew Say Yes. Introduction We have reports regarding the perceptions of police officers from two reputable organizations. Both…
View More Negative Publicity Affects Policing Per FBI and Pew