Background USA Today offered an analysis addressing why Baltimore has become America’s deadliest city. Their article examined police “disengagement” as an explanation for the profound…
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Cops Take Back Their Image With The Lip Sync Challenge
Observations We’re not just talking about a couple thousand views, police lip sync videos are getting tens of thousands and in the case of Norfolk,…
View More Cops Take Back Their Image With The Lip Sync ChallengeThe US Is One Of The World’s Safest Countries
Issues Some suggest that the United States is one of the world’s most violent countries. Some suggest that it’s comparatively safe. Who is correct? The…
View More The US Is One Of The World’s Safest CountriesUS Ranks Third For Women And Sexual Violence
Observation Thomson Reuters-“The only Western nation in the top 10 was the United States, which ranked joint third when respondents were asked where women were most…
View More US Ranks Third For Women And Sexual ViolenceReleased Prisoners Commit Two Million Crimes-Five Arrests Per Offender
Observations Offender recidivism is extremely high. It doesn’t matter if you are pro or anti sentencing reform or any manner of lessening the impact of…
View More Released Prisoners Commit Two Million Crimes-Five Arrests Per OffenderViolent Crimes Reported to Police Hit Record Lows
Observation In 2016, fewer than half (42%) of violent crimes were reported to police. This is the lowest percentage of violent crimes reported since 1998.…
View More Violent Crimes Reported to Police Hit Record LowsPredicting School Violence, Mass Shooters and Violent Crime
Questions Can we predict school or mass shooters? Can we predict future violence? Can we predict criminals who will re-offend and return to the criminal…
View More Predicting School Violence, Mass Shooters and Violent Crime78 Percent of Americans Worry About Crime-Gallup
Observations 78 percent of Americans worry about crime and violence a great deal or a fair amount, the same as health care, the number one…
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56 Percent Say Reducing Crime Is A Top Priority
Observations 56 percent of Americans believe that crime needs to be reduced. 68 percent of Americans believe that crime is increasing. Author Leonard Adam Sipes,…
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Violent Crime Reduction Needs Context
Observations A small reduction in violent crime for the first six months of 2017 is good news, and we all hope it continues, but declaring that violent…
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Assaults On Police Officers Increase Dramatically
Observations The number of assaults on officers increased to 50,991 in 2015 and then exploded to 57,180 for 2016. The percent of officers injured increased.…
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Crimes Americans Worry About Most
Overview When you have 20 to 40 percent of Americans worried about street crime, and 65 percent concerned about cybercrime, it explains a…
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Violent Crime Up? New Federal Report
Overview Per “Criminal Victimization” from the Bureau of Justice Statistics for 2015 and 2016 (The National Crime Survey), violent crimes went from 5 million violent…
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84 Percent of Young State Offenders Recidivate-New Federal Report
Overview A new federal report offers comparisons of recidivism as to age and a variety of additional factors. For offenders age 24 or younger…
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Are Cops Holding Back? National Arrests Decrease for Most Categories
Observations Many of us from the former director of the FBI to data from Pew to research institutions to national law enforcement organizations suggest that the increase…
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Dislike Cops? No Justice No Peace
Observation Is it time to consider that our approach to law enforcement has been dysfunctional to the point where cops have lost faith in the…
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Police Strategies Reduce Crime-New Study
Observations A podcast of this article is available on YouTube. This may be considered “the” definitive study of policing tactics as I update this article…
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Texas Shooter: Number of Accurate Criminal Records Is Staggeringly Low
Observations “According to the Department of Justice, the number of these records that are actually uploaded is staggeringly low…” ”Even the FBI acknowledges that its…
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Personal Crime Flat Per Gallup
Observation If you are looking for a national summation of data, violent crime is up per the FBI, property crime is down in all three…
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118 Law Enforcement Officers Killed-57,180 Officers Assaulted
Observations The number of officers killed as a result of criminal acts in 2016 increased by 25 when compared with the 41 officers who were…
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