How Long Before Criminals Start Attacking Cops With Drones?

How Long Before Criminals Start Attacking Cops With Drones?

Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Increasing threats – Expect weaponized drones to appear in U.S. criminal or cartel operations, possibly in border states…

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Washington Post Says Social Programs Dramatically Reduced Homicides-Are They Right?

The Criminal Communication Network-How Criminals Connect With Each Other

Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Do criminals have a communication network? Criminal offenders tend to gravitate towards people, places, and things…

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Jail Admissions Increase-What It Means For Bail Reform, Immigration, Staffing and Older Inmates

Jail Increases Provide Insight Into Justice System Changes

Observations This article is available as a YouTube podcast. There are indications of an increasing pretrial jail population, which “may” reflect a growing concern that…

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The Quiet Truth Behind Baltimore's Violence Reduction: It’s Not the Programs—It’s the Pressure

If Crime Is Down, Why Is Fear Up? Are Americans Delusional?

Highlights This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. Per Gallup, the US and Canada are the only sections of the world (beyond Sub-Saharan…

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Identity Theft Happens Far More Often Than All FBI Reported Crimes

FBI: Cybercrime Up 33 Percent-Other Property Crimes Increase-But FBI Property Crime Is Decreasing?

Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast For the last full official report in 2023, the FBI estimates that overall property crime (i.e.,…

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Do We Need To Be Smarter in Our Social Media Communications?

Will Trump Change National Crime Statistics? Are We Getting Accurate Crime Data?

Highlights   This article is available as a YouTube podcast.   Per an executive order, President Trump wants to “increase the investment in and collection,…

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Cutting Crime by A Third-Proactive Policing Works. But Do We Want To Do It?

How Americans Rate the Police–Largest Yearly Increase

Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Americans’ confidence in the police increased eight percentage points over the past year to 51%, the largest…

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Immigrants and Crime: What the Numbers Say–And What They Don’t

Immigrants and Crime: What the Numbers Say–And What They Don’t

Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast.  Updated six times since publication. Considering the popularity of this article, additional sections have been added…

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Washington Post Says Social Programs Dramatically Reduced Homicides-Are They Right?

What Groups Are Victimized the Most By Crime? Crime’s Shifting Landscape

Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Criminal offenders gravitate to people, places, and things perceived as easier targets with successful or bigger…

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Fear Of Crime In The US-Europe And Central-South America

Is It Possible To Safely Release Violent Prison Inmates Early?

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…

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Confidence In American Police Exceeds Most Other Institutions

Is Policing The Toughest Job In America?

Highlights Americans have considerable mental health and substance problems plus an inability to behave well per data. These issues have implications for police-civilian encounters. About…

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Identity Theft Happens Far More Often Than All FBI Reported Crimes

Artificial Intelligence: Transforming Law Enforcement And The Justice System

 Highlights   Artificial Intelligence (AI) will soon be a significant part of the lives of people in law enforcement and the rest of the justice…

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Official Crime Counts Dramatically Understate US Criminality

How Many People With Criminal Histories Do We Interact With Daily?

Highlights You, your spouse, and your children interact daily with people who have criminal histories. Acknowledging this and evaluating potentially menacing or uncomfortable situations keeps…

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Top Factors That Contribute To Violent Crime

How To Get Answers To Your Crime And Justice Questions

Highlights This article is available as a YouTube Podcast. A guide to getting answers to crime and justice questions. Most in state and local justice…

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Most Correctional Staff Sexual Misconduct Involve Female Correctional Officers

Parole And Probation: Dangers, Realities, and the Need for Change

Highlights   There’s no national consensus as to what we want from parole and probation employees or agencies.   Parole and probation agents supervise and…

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Do Cops Control Crime And Improve Public Safety?

Cops And Crime Control–Does Society Know What It Wants?

Highlights We must decide what we want from law enforcement before we lose thousands of additional cops and endanger public safety. At the moment, proactive…

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USDOJ-States With The Highest Rates For Violent And Property Crimes-2024

We Ignore The USDOJ’s 44 Percent Increase In Violent Crime-Why?

Highlights “The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is the nation’s primary source of information on criminal victimization,” the US Census Bureau. No one is saying…

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Cutting Crime by A Third-Proactive Policing Works. But Do We Want To Do It?

The Distressing Status Of Arrests, Crimes Solved And Incarcerations

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…

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Official Crime Counts Dramatically Understate US Criminality

The Average Time Served in State Prisons Is 1.3 Years

Highlights The median (average) time served in state prison for all offenses is 1.3 years. This article is available via a podcast on YouTube. Author…

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Most Offenders Do Not Pay Court-Ordered Fines and Restitution

How Many Crimes Are Prosecuted In The United States?

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…

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