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

Are Mayors Getting Tough On Crime And Criminals?

Highlights “Biden bucks liberals and tells Democrats to get tough on crime.” “We are in a state of emergency right now.” “I think that people…

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Your Beliefs About Crime Become Your Crime Policies

Will People Stop Calling The Police? Response Times Increase Dramatically

Highlights The dynamics of response times have real implications for law enforcement policy. Community-based policing is promoted in just about every research study to improve…

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Nearly Six In 10 Mayors Called Juvenile Crime “Serious Or Very Serious”

Are Billions Of Dollars In Community-Based Violence Programs Worth The Expenditure?

Highlights There’s nothing wrong with trying new community-based crime control strategies. The problem is what seems intuitive to so many doesn’t mean that programs will…

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Law Enforcement Agencies Continue To Lose Police Officers

Highlights With rising violence in urban areas and thousands of police officers leaving their jobs because of immense negative publicity stereotyping “all” police officers for…

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Criminal Offenders Do Not Want Drug Treatment

Did The The DOJ Just Solve The Problem Of Massive Offender Recidivism?

Highlights The USDOJ states that they have programs that massively reduce offender recidivism (arrests and incarceration after prison).  I assume that the DOJ will now…

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Gun Violence-Firearms Used During Mass Shootings And Street Crimes

Highlights A summation of firearms used during street crimes and mass shootings. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal senior spokesperson. Thirty-five years of directing…

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Most People Victimized By People They Know

Does The Media Provide Too Much Information On Mass Shooters?

Highlights Is the media giving the public too much information on mass shooters? There’s a case to be made that they are and that’s propagating…

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Official Crime Counts Dramatically Understate US Criminality

Women Offenders-Over Half Of Violent Females Were Arrested Within 5 Years Of Release

Highlights More than half of females (55%, compared to 66% of males) who were serving time for a violent offense were arrested for another offense.…

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Fear Of Crime High In The US-World Crime Rankings From Gallup

Deaths During Arrests Or Correctional Custody

Highlights Decedents injured or attempted to injure federal law enforcement officers in 59% of arrest-related deaths and discharged a firearm in 41% in FY 2020.…

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

Sending The Wrong Messages to Criminals: “They Know They’re Untouchable.”

Highlights “They Can’t Touch the Criminals. They Know They’re Untouchable.” Washington Post article on Baltimore violence. Offenders understand that the rules governing them have softened…

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How Many People Are Victimized By Crime Each Year

African American Confidence In Law Enforcement

  Highlights Approximately 70 to 89 percent of Black respondents provided positive ratings of law enforcement ranging from a willingness to contact police in the…

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Criminal Offenders Do Not Want Drug Treatment

Prison Inmates-9 Prior Arrests-4 Million Total Arrests-42 Percent Had 5-10 Incarcerations

  Highlights This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. The 369,200 persons admitted to state prison in 34 states had an estimated 4.2…

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School Crime-Per The CDC-Weapons Used In High School Crime Declines

Highlights While there are understandable concerns about mass shootings, those threatened or injured with weapons (firearms-knives-clubs) in high schools decreased for males from 10 percent…

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The Recidivism Of Violent Offenders

Judging Future Criminality Through Risk Assessments-USDOJ

  Highlights The National Institute Of Justice offers data on which incarcerated groups have the highest rates of recidivism (i.e. arrests and incarcerations). We were…

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Most Crimes Are Not Reported To Law Enforcement

Has Police Reform Resulted In Thousands Of Crime And Accident Victims?

Highlights Fear of crime is at record highs. Nearly 43,000 people died in U.S. traffic crashes in 2021, the highest number in 16 years. There…

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

Adults Reporting Mental Illness And Substance Abuse Were Far More Likely To Be Arrested

Highlights Data from Pew is combined with previous research indicating the complexity of mental health, substance abuse, and co-occurring disorders in the justice system and…

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Mass Shootings

Recognizing Mass Shooters And Potential Attacks In Public Places-Federal Research

Highlights An overview of two recent documents on mass shootings and mass shooters from the US Secret Service and the National Institute of Justice. Both…

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Are Crimes Solved Increasing? What About Arrests and Incarcerations?

Characteristics Of High-Crime Communities-Dangers To Children

Highlights Where crime is concentrated? Income and location mean much to parents rating neighborhoods as to potential dangers to their children. It’s a unique and…

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