Highlights When adding all three categories in a recent Gallup poll, a great deal of confidence, quite a lot, and some, 81 percent expressed a…
View More 81 Percent Express Confidence in Police Yet Polls Show Declines And DisparitiesCategory: Crime News
Increasing Violent Crime In America Per Polls And University Data
Highlights Violent crime is up 28 percent since 2015 per the Department of Justice. Seventy-seven percent say they are concerned that crime is rising in…
View More Increasing Violent Crime In America Per Polls And University DataFunding Reduced For Most Police Agencies-Violence Increasing
Highlights Few law enforcement agencies, regardless of size, are being spared. It’s being called a “perfect storm” and the biggest budget cuts in a decade.…
View More Funding Reduced For Most Police Agencies-Violence IncreasingWhat The Public Thinks About Police Reform And Defunding
Highlights Per Gallup, “Most Americans Say Policing Needs Major Changes.” Every day brings more protests and endless videos of riots, looting, arson, graffiti, and assaults…
View More What The Public Thinks About Police Reform And DefundingSocial Workers And Cops-We Can’t Be All Things To All People
Highlights “We have a joke in policing, that cops hate two things: change and the way things are,” (social media response). Any sense that cops…
View More Social Workers And Cops-We Can’t Be All Things To All PeopleDefunding The Police? It Already Happened-Law Enforcement Expenditures Since 2000
Highlights National police spending has been relatively flat or has decreased in recent years. There is a twenty-eight percent increase in violence (with serious violent…
View More Defunding The Police? It Already Happened-Law Enforcement Expenditures Since 2000Social Workers Need To Step Up And Replace Cops
Highlights If you want to significantly reduce use of force issues in policing, social workers need to respond to many crisis situations. Being a cop…
View More Social Workers Need To Step Up And Replace CopsPer Cops-No Justice-No Peace
Highlights No justice no peace? That’s what cops are saying to themselves by forgoing proactively. As a result, violence is increasing. If you condemn all…
View More Per Cops-No Justice-No PeaceIs Crime Control Dead?
Highlights If crime control is no longer the priority then be prepared for major changes that citizens will find abhorrent. There has to be some…
View More Is Crime Control Dead?Public Confidence In The Police Is Stronger Than You Think
Highlights The recruitment of cops is down 63 percent. Officers are calling in sick throughout the country. A DC police union survey says 71 percent…
View More Public Confidence In The Police Is Stronger Than You ThinkArrests and Police Contacts Plummet While Violence Increases
Highlights Per the US Department of Justice, violent crime increased 28 percent since 2015. Serious violent crime is also increasing. This is happening while arrests…
View More Arrests and Police Contacts Plummet While Violence IncreasesCamden-The Most Violent City In New Jersey
Highlights A search for answers after the death of George Floyd and the black lives matter protests. Camden, NJ, is being touted as a success…
View More Camden-The Most Violent City In New JerseyDefunding The Police-What Cops Support
Highlights A search for answers after the death of George Floyd and the black lives matter protests. The problem with defunding law enforcement is that…
View More Defunding The Police-What Cops SupportCops And The George Floyd Disturbances-Is It Time To Leave?
Highlights A search for answers after the death of George Floyd. If America now believes that all cops are the problem, why would they stay?…
View More Cops And The George Floyd Disturbances-Is It Time To Leave?The Death Of George Floyd-Riots-And What Happens Next?
Highlights A search for answers after watching hours of Sunday news coverage of the riots after the death of George Floyd. Seventy-five protests across the…
View More The Death Of George Floyd-Riots-And What Happens Next?Federal Research-Long Prison Sentences Significantly Reduce Crime And Recidivism
Highlights In the two models with the larger sample sizes, offenders incarcerated for more than 120 months were approximately 30 percent less likely to recidivate.…
View More Federal Research-Long Prison Sentences Significantly Reduce Crime And RecidivismForcing Cops To Be Coronavirus Enforcers-Is This Wise?
Highlights Cops are enforcing Coronavirus pandemic requirements per the demands of politicians, citizens, health experts, and the media. There are comparisons to stop and frisk…
View More Forcing Cops To Be Coronavirus Enforcers-Is This Wise?Criminal Rehabilitation Programs-Some Work-Most Don’t
Offender Rehabilitation And Reentry Programs-What Works “Programs that included group work, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) or CBT-like components, counseling, or that used drug court or other…
View More Criminal Rehabilitation Programs-Some Work-Most Don’tWhy Are Prison Numbers Falling?
Highlights Why are prison numbers falling? Are reductions due to criminal justice reform or dramatically reduced crime, arrests, and citizen contacts? An estimated 1,465,200 prisoners…
View More Why Are Prison Numbers Falling?Federal And State Offenders Highly Mobile-30 To 60 Percent Had Convictions In Multiple States
Highlights Federal offenders seem to be highly mobile. If we include arrests and prosecutions along with convictions, the percentages from other states would be much…
View More Federal And State Offenders Highly Mobile-30 To 60 Percent Had Convictions In Multiple States