Highlights An overview of states based on rates of violent offenses and rates of violent victimizations, using crimes reported to law enforcement, as articulated by…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Most people are violently victimized by family members or people they know, according to the FBI.…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. “There have to be reasons for declining crime,” states one reader. What about jail and prison…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. ABC News: “Organized crime in Mexico is an immense problem and it’s not going anywhere. There…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Readers want to know the reasons for the reduction in crimes reported to law enforcement. This…
This article is available as a YouTube video. Notes I rarely use outside writers for this site, but Kurt Wolfgang, the Executive Director of the…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. “Protecting people from crime is one of the government’s most fundamental and urgent responsibilities. However, the…
Highlights There are now 70 YouTube podcasts available from Crime In America.Net (https://crimeinamerica.net). Crime In Americ.Net is a 16-year-old website addressing crime and justice issues.…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. An overview of how the USDOJ counts crime, including the use of the National Crime Victimization…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube video. Example: L.A. sees lowest homicide rate in decades — but why killings are down is up for…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. The 2024 arrest total was 25% lower than in 2019, the year before the pandemic, and…
Highlights This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. 67% of correctional staff sexual misconduct perpetrators were female and 69% of staff…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. There are reports of declining crime in US cities. People are asking why? Is it…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. It’s unrealistic to expect that limited social interactions by violence interrupters and program providers are going…
Highlights The proposed USDOJ report changing national and local crime statistics will have vast implications for newsrooms. Your jurisdiction’s crime rates could increase…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. “Protecting people from crime is one of the government’s most fundamental and urgent responsibilities. However, the…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. It’s unrealistic to expect that limited social interactions by violence interrupters and program providers are going…
Highlights This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. Are progressives hurting their own causes with what they say about crime? “We are doing our…
This article is available as a YouTube video. Cities are claiming significant crime reductions by providing services to potential offenders. They are downplaying the role…
Highlights This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. This is a national story as several states contemplate reducing sentences for violent offenders. Per…
Highlights You, your spouse, and your children interact daily with people who have criminal histories. Acknowledging this and evaluating potentially menacing or uncomfortable situations keeps…
Highlights There’s no national consensus as to what we want from parole and probation employees or agencies. Parole and probation agents supervise and…
Highlights The median (average) time served in state prison for all offenses is 1.3 years. This article is available via a podcast on YouTube. Author…
Highlights Most crimes involve reduced charges or dropped or deferred prosecutions. Concessions through plea-bargains, dropped charges, and limited prison sentences are seen as necessary to…
Highlights If risk assessments of criminal offenders consistently show signs of bias, what does that mean for criminal justice reform? “There remains evidence that the…
Highlights Maybe it’s time for crime victims to appeal to the courts for redress and financial compensation to force their victimizers to pay a price…
Highlights There is a new report, Probation and Parole in the United States, issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the US Department of Justice.…
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…
Highlights Per the US Department of Justice and the US Sentencing Commission, the vast majority of rearrests for those on community supervision or parole and…
Introduction A synopsis of family and community violence research that is strongly connected to those involved in violent crime. Childhood trauma can “rewire” the brain,…
Highlights You’re lost at close to 5,000 feet in a fog bank on a mountain road. Your child needs medical care while traveling. You’re confronted…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Our reputation depends on how we communicate and how often we create media to accent our…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. The 2024 arrest total was 25% lower than in 2019, the year before the pandemic, and…
This article is available as a YouTube video. Cities are claiming significant crime reductions by providing services to potential offenders. They are downplaying the role…
Summation This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Although Black Americans’ positive impressions of each measure have been at the majority level since 2021,…
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Americans’ confidence in the police increased eight percentage points over the past year to 51%, the largest…
Highlights Americans have considerable mental health and substance problems plus an inability to behave well per data. These issues have implications for police-civilian encounters. About…
Highlights We must decide what we want from law enforcement before we lose thousands of additional cops and endanger public safety. At the moment, proactive…
Highlights For the first time in many years, incarcerations and arrests, seem to be increasing with a slight expansion of police officers after losing 25,000…
Highlights Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicate the considerable loss of police officers in recent years. BLS Charts are below. Tens of…
Highlights There are 120 million porch package thefts in the US. Searches for “stolen package” spike every December, according to Google Trends. The survey indicated…
Listen to a podcast of this article on Spotify or view it on YouTube. Quotes Democratic strategist James Carville, “defund the police” were “the three…
Highlights Hear a podcast of this article on Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, and other audio-video sources. Why are so many professionals leaving law enforcement, corrections, and youth services? …
Highlights Hear a podcast of this article on Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, and other audio-video sources. The overwhelming majority of Americans expressed satisfaction with their…
Highlights Are law enforcement staffing levels affecting reported crime? Are there additional reasons for reduced reported crime via the FBI? Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr.…