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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Category: Fear of Crime
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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When Pigs Fly-Democratic Think Tanks Get Tough On Crime
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. “Protecting people from crime is one of the government’s most fundamental and urgent responsibilities. However, the…
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Podcasts On Policing-Crime And Justice From Crime In America.Net
Highlights There are now 70 YouTube podcasts available from Crime In America.Net (https://crimeinamerica.net). Crime In Americ.Net is a 16-year-old website addressing crime and justice issues.…
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Official Crime Counts May Dramatically Understate US Criminality
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. An overview of how the USDOJ counts crime, including the use of the National Crime Victimization…
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Do We Know Why Crime Is Declining?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube video. Example: L.A. sees lowest homicide rate in decades — but why killings are down is up for…
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Did The Loss Of 25,000 Cops Create A 25 Percent Reduction In Arrests?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. The 2024 arrest total was 25% lower than in 2019, the year before the pandemic, and…
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Do Crime Rates Rise and Fall Together Across Countries?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. There are reports of declining crime in US cities. People are asking why? Is it…
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Cities Say Social Programs Reduced Homicides-Are They Right?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. It’s unrealistic to expect that limited social interactions by violence interrupters and program providers are going…
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Newsrooms Need To Prepare-A Big Shake-Up Is Coming to America’s Crime Statistics
Highlights The proposed USDOJ report changing national and local crime statistics will have vast implications for newsrooms. Your jurisdiction’s crime rates could increase…
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America’s Crime Statistics Will Change—Here’s Why
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Your jurisdiction’s crime rates could increase or decrease significantly. Per an Executive Order…
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