Highlights Per the FBI, violent crime was flat for the first six months of 2020 (decreased 0.4 percent). The number of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter…
View More Per The FBI-Overall Violent Crime Is Flat-Murder and Aggravated Assaults Increased During 2020Category: Crime Reductions in America
Increase In Violent Crime Largest In A Quarter-Century Per USDOJ
Highlights The 7% increase in the violent crime rate from 2014 to 2016, per FBI data, was the largest increase over a 2-year period in…
View More Increase In Violent Crime Largest In A Quarter-Century Per USDOJViolent Crime Declines For The First Half of 2019
Highlights Statistics show overall declines in both violent and property crime in the first half of 2019 compared to the same time frame the previous…
View More Violent Crime Declines For The First Half of 2019Are Dramatic Reductions In Lower Level Arrests Increasing Violence?
Highlights Has the dramatic decrease in arrests for lower-level crimes led to the twenty-eight percent national increase in violent crimes? Will cops ever return to…
View More Are Dramatic Reductions In Lower Level Arrests Increasing Violence?Americans Increasingly Satisfied With Crime Reductions
violent crime Highlights There may be a glimmer of hope that crime and citizen perceptions may be getting better. An overview of recent polls as…
View More Americans Increasingly Satisfied With Crime ReductionsViolent Crime Stats Explained-Violence Down For 2018
Highlights Per the FBI, there is a decrease of 4.3 percent in the number of violent crimes brought to their attention for the first 6…
View More Violent Crime Stats Explained-Violence Down For 2018Crime Will Play A Major Role in the Midterm Elections
Crime and Congress Highlights 78 percent of Americans worry about crime and violence a great deal or a fair amount, the same as health…
View More Crime Will Play A Major Role in the Midterm ElectionsPolice Strategies Reduce Crime-New Study
Observations The focus of this study is proactive policing (self-initiated efforts to reduce crime) versus traditional tactics such as responding to calls and routine patrol.…
View More Police Strategies Reduce Crime-New StudyCan Communities Control Crime? The Baltimore Experiment
Subtitles “Are you saying you can’t keep your hood safe?” Cops want communities to take responsibility for their own crime problems. Gang members called Ceasefire…
View More Can Communities Control Crime? The Baltimore Experiment“They Can’t Touch the Criminals. They Know They’re Untouchable.” Public Opinion and Crime
If offenders really believe that they are beyond the control of society and the justice system, and if we refuse to send clear messages, we…
View More “They Can’t Touch the Criminals. They Know They’re Untouchable.” Public Opinion and Crime