Author Leonard A. Sipes, Jr. Thirty-five years of speaking for national and state criminal justice agencies. Former Senior Specialist for Crime Prevention for the Department…
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Crime in America.Net We have a student question; “With all the state and local and federal budget cuts, what will law enforcement agencies do to…
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Crime in America We have praised research from the Washington State Institute for Public Policy in the past as being user friendly and to-the-point. The…
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