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Category: Fear of Crime
FBI Records Historic Drops in Reported Crime In 2025-Why?
Highlights The FBI recorded a substantial decrease in violent and property crimes. This article offers possible reasons why and context not offered by the mainstream…
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Cutting Crime By A Third: Proactive Policing Works—Will We Use It?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Extensive literature reviews from impartial, prestigious research organizations on crime and justice operations are rare. The…
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Per Gallup-Identity Theft And Scams Happen Far More Often Than All FBI Reported Crimes
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. There are hundreds of media articles celebrating the reductions in reported crime as offered by the…
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Sorry Reporters-Why Crime Has No Easy Answers
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. After decades in the justice system (six years in law enforcement) with multiple university degrees, I…
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Is Prison The Answer? Fear Of Crime In The US, Europe And Central-South America
Highlights This article was created to support my 35th appearance on the nationally syndicated Armstrong Williams show focusing on worldwide fear of crime. This article…
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Gallup-Four Out Of Five Democrats View Crime As A Serious National Concern
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Per Gallup, seventeen percent of Democrats say that crime in the US is not serious, versus…
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Are Americans Stupid When It Comes To Crime?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Crimes reported to law enforcement are down throughout the country, yet fear of crime remains remarkably…
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Crime Emerged When AI Agents Created Their Own Society
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Researchers placed AI agents into virtual societies and allowed them to interact with minimal human supervision.…
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Police: “We’re Not Reporting All Crime”: A Persistent Claim Across American Cities
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. A list of cities focusing on current and past charges of downgrading crime statistics. Do mayors…
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Top Factors That Contribute To Violent Crime
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Per a reader’s request, the article lists the primary factors that contribute to violent and overall…
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Is FBI Data A Reliable Count Of National Crime?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. FBI crime statistics reflect crime trends based on incidents reported to police, but are vastly incomplete…
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Sexual Assault and Older Female Victims
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. This article addresses whether sexual assault of elderly women is so unlikely that it can reasonably…
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Fear Of Crime Continues To Decline in 2026 Per Gallup
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. The criminological literature is very clear: fear of crime concerns can destroy cities, the psychological well-being…
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Are Crimes Solved Increasing? Is The Justice System Stabilizing?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. For the first time in many years, jail admissions, incarcerations, and arrests seem to be increasing…
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Most Crime Victims Know Their Offenders Per The FBI
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Most people are violently victimized by family members or people they know, according to the FBI.…
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We’re Putting More People in Prison, Right? Reasons For Declining Reported Crime
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. “There have to be reasons for declining crime,” states one reader. What about jail and prison…
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Can Mexican Cartel Violence And Widespread Disinformation Happen Here?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. ABC News: “Organized crime in Mexico is an immense problem and it’s not going anywhere. There…
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“There Have To Be Reasons For Declining Crime”-Arrest Statistics
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Readers want to know the reasons for the reduction in crimes reported to law enforcement. This…
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Giving Crime Victims A Fighting Chance-A New National Victims Task Force
This article is available as a YouTube video. Notes I rarely use outside writers for this site, but Kurt Wolfgang, the Executive Director of the…
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