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…
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Is Violence Rising Or Falling? Understanding Quirks Within The National Crime Victimization Survey
Highlights Analyzing national violence and property crime statistics can cause mental whiplash. Understanding crime in America has never been more challenging. For the upcoming elections,…
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Sending The Wrong Messages to Criminals: “They Know They’re Untouchable.”
Highlights “They Can’t Touch the Criminals. They Know They’re Untouchable.” Washington Post article on Baltimore violence. Offenders understand that the rules governing them have softened…
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The Mostly Violent Prison Population Decreased Every Year Since 2013
Highlights The U.S. prison population was 1,204,300 at yearend 2021, a 25% decrease from 2011 (1,599,000). Per the Bureau Of Justice Statistics, 58% of all…
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Pretrial Jail Inmates Increased Considerably Despite Bail Reform
Highlights Per The Bureau Of Justice Statistics, after a 37 percent decrease from 2019 to midyear 2020, the number of females confined in local jails…
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American Arrests Are Plummeting. Why?
Highlights Are vastly declining arrests the result of intense criticism of law enforcement? Are decreased arrests the reason for increasing urban violence? Author Leonard Adam…
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The Risk Of Violent Street Crimes Rose By 40 Percent
Highlights National Academy of Sciences: Violence in public places is increasing. It could be a partial answer to record-setting fear of crime. Traditional crime rates…
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Red Flag Laws And Other Impossible Police-Justice Reforms
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 ReformsHow Many Nonfatal Shootings End In An Arrest?
Highlights 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?National Crime Statistics And Media Reports Are Getting Wacky
Highlights Is crime increasing or decreasing? According to reports from the US Department of Justice, it’s both. Understanding national crime data is getting harder than…
View More National Crime Statistics And Media Reports Are Getting WackyThe Best Evidence As To Why We Have Rapidly Increasing Violence
Highlights The justice system is based on deterrence through crime reporting, crime solving, arrests, prosecution, and accountability through the correctional system. Decreases in any of…
View More The Best Evidence As To Why We Have Rapidly Increasing ViolenceDiscovering That Growing Violence Doesn’t Have A Solution
Highlights Violent crime is rapidly rising. Violent criminals have little fear of being caught or held accountable. Mass shooters (the majority of which are street-level…
View More Discovering That Growing Violence Doesn’t Have A SolutionThe CDC’s Homicide-Firearms Data Creates A Firestorm Of Media Misinformation
Highlights Why are firearms the key or only element of crime discussions? Are there an array of issues we are ignoring? Why does the media…
View More The CDC’s Homicide-Firearms Data Creates A Firestorm Of Media MisinformationRecord Number Of Police Murders-Half Did Not Engage Their Assailants
Highlights A police officer is murdered every five days. Nearly half did not engage with their assailants before being attacked-highest in 30 years. The highest…
View More Record Number Of Police Murders-Half Did Not Engage Their AssailantsCops and Nurses Are Leaving-The Issues Are Similar-The Media Scrutiny Isn’t
Highlights Reader’s Comment: In 2021 police utilized deadly force over a thousand times in the line of duty. In any given year 250,000 die in…
View More Cops and Nurses Are Leaving-The Issues Are Similar-The Media Scrutiny Isn’tDoes The USDOJ Want To Defund Prisons And Release Violent Offenders?
Highlights The US Department of Justice issued a press release stating that it wants to reduce incarceration. You can’t do that without releasing or deferring…
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Are Businesses-Jobs And Residents Disappearing Because Of Growing Crime?
Highlights Residents of high-crime communities are cut off from jobs and places to shop because of crime. No business will invest in communities deemed dangerous.…
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Over 40 Percent Of Prison Inmates Had Five To Ten Prior Incarcerations
Highlights Seventy-eight percent of inmates had previous incarcerations. Forty-two percent had 5-10 or more incarcerations. The vast majority of prison inmates have multiple previous arrests…
View More Over 40 Percent Of Prison Inmates Had Five To Ten Prior Incarcerations40% Decrease In Prison Admissions in 2020-Impact On Growing Violence
Highlights The correlation between new criminality and incarceration (or lack of incarceration) seems strong based on rapidly rising violence. The imprisonment rate for 2020 represented…
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DOJ: Largest Increase In Homicides-Largest Decrease in Violence-Confused?
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…
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