Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. This article recognizes National Crime Victims’ Rights Week and asks why states do not enforce compensation…
View More Most Offenders Do Not Pay Victim Restitution-National Crime Victims Week
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Of approximately 708,000 sworn U.S. police officers, about 57,000 left their jobs in 2020, while roughly…
View More 64,000 Full-Time Police Vacancies In One Year Per The USDOJ
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…
View More Cities-Baltimore-Crime Reductions And Misleading The Public
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…
View More Is It Possible To Safely Release Violent Prison Inmates Early?
Highlights There’s no national consensus as to what we want from parole and probation employees or agencies. Parole and probation agents supervise and…
View More Parole And Probation: Dangers, Realities, and the Need for Change
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…
View More The Distressing Status Of Arrests, Crimes Solved And Incarcerations
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…
View More How Many Crimes Are Prosecuted In The United States?
Highlights The top twenty states for spending on law enforcement. Correctional spending is included. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal senior spokesperson. Thirty-five years…
View More Twenty Top States For Police Spending
Highlights Arrests have plummeted along with crimes solved. Do we ask too much from too few? Do we provide the resources cops need to solve…
View More Most Crimes Are Not Solved-Why?
Highlights Do federal court-ordered police consent decrees increase crime? For some cities, the answer is yes. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal senior spokesperson.…
View More Does Crime Increase After Federal Police Consent Agreements?Highlights Sending unarmed civilian personnel to respond to police calls for service will be risky. Because of understaffing, it’s probably inevitable. The premise is that…
View More Police Agencies Cutting Services Depend on Civilian PersonnelEditor’s Note: This article supports the nationally syndicated Armstrong Williams television show (I’ve been a guest many times) regarding crime in Baltimore City. I was…
View More Solutions To “The Tragedy Of Baltimore’s Violence Problem”
Highlights There were 546,000 older offenders arrested for criminal activity in 2019 per the FBI. High percentages of older offenders are arrested after release from…
View More Older Offenders-Riskier Than You Think
Highlights Red flag laws are impossible to effectively enforce. We within the justice system knew that when they were introduced. What most want in terms…
View More Red Flag Laws And Other Impossible Police-Justice ReformsHighlights Per the examples below, the vast majority of nonfatal shootings do not end in an arrest. It will take money, technology, public support, and…
View More How Many Nonfatal Shootings End In An Arrest?
Highlights Over 12,000 local police officers and employees have left their jobs per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Per separate BLS charts, there was an…
View More 12,353 Police Employees Left Law Enforcement Along With 1,361 State Police Per BLS
Highlights What works to reduce crime and violence? It’s not what many think. A research-based approach to preventing violent crime. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr.…
View More What Works To Reduce Crime And ViolenceHighlights Calls to defund the police have hit a brick wall of increased violence, reality, and public opinion. “Anyone who says that more police don’t…
View More America-Spend More on Cops-The Great ReawakeningHighlights Are cops leaving the job? Do we have enough police officers? Are they properly funded? Does the Department of Justice have a plan for…
View More The Number of Police Officers Leaving Law EnforcementHighlights Reduced police budgets are correlated with increased homicides and violent crime. National violence is increasing per the US Department of Justice. In nine of…
View More Reduced Police Budgets Linked To Increased Homicides