Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. New research from RAND explores the impact of violent crime and firearm violence on the Black…
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Police: “We’re Not Reporting All Crime”: A Persistent Claim Across American Cities
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. A list of cities focusing on current and past charges of downgrading crime statistics. Do mayors…
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FBI Reported Preliminary Crime Data For 2025
Highlights An early look at reported crime data for 2025 from the FBI. Numbers from the USDOJ’s National Crime Victimization Survey are included for comparison…
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Top Factors That Contribute To Violent Crime
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Per a reader’s request, the article lists the primary factors that contribute to violent and overall…
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Is FBI Data A Reliable Count Of National Crime?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. FBI crime statistics reflect crime trends based on incidents reported to police, but are vastly incomplete…
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Felonies And Violent Crimes-Increasing Part Of Parole And Probation Caseloads
Summation This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Statistics on parole and probation from the Bureau of Justice Statistics are offered for 2023. 2024 data will…
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Most Offenders Do Not Pay Victim Restitution-National Crime Victims Week
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…
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FBI Data-Aggravated Assaults And Firearms
Highlights Aggravated assault is defined by the FBI as “an unlawful attack by one person upon another wherein the offender uses a dangerous weapon or…
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Sexual Assault and Older Female Victims
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. This article addresses whether sexual assault of elderly women is so unlikely that it can reasonably…
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Police Officer Deaths-January-March 2026
Highlights Ten officers have been feloniously killed in the first 3 months of 2026. CrimeinAmerica.Net-Chat GPT’s “Top 10 Sources for Crime in America” based on…
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Fear Of Crime Continues To Decline in 2026 Per Gallup
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. The criminological literature is very clear: fear of crime concerns can destroy cities, the psychological well-being…
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Many Criminal Offenders Do Not Want Drug Treatment
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Examples from California, Oregon, and other areas indicate that many (most?) drug offenders do not want…
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64,000 Full-Time Police Vacancies In One Year Per The USDOJ
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…
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Are Crimes Solved Increasing? Is The Justice System Stabilizing?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. For the first time in many years, jail admissions, incarcerations, and arrests seem to be increasing…
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USDOJ-States With The Highest Rates For Violent And Property Crimes
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. It includes states above the national averages for crime. Regardless of how crime is measured, the…
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Most Crime Victims Know Their Offenders Per The FBI
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.…
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We’re Putting More People in Prison, Right? Reasons For Declining Reported Crime
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…
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Can Mexican Cartel Violence And Widespread Disinformation Happen Here?
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…
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“There Have To Be Reasons For Declining Crime”-Arrest Statistics
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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Giving Crime Victims A Fighting Chance-A New National Victims Task Force
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…
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