Highlights Will cops return to proactive policing without assurances and guidelines? Are there firm rules of engagement? Chicago Mayor Lightfoot deems 2022 ‘make-or-break year’ for…
View More Mayors Want More Arrests-Is This Our Last Chance To Control Crime?Category: Fear of Crime
Does The USDOJ Want To Defund Prisons And Release Violent Offenders?
Highlights The US Department of Justice issued a press release stating that it wants to reduce incarceration. You can’t do that without releasing or deferring…
View More Does The USDOJ Want To Defund Prisons And Release Violent Offenders?
Are Businesses-Jobs And Residents Disappearing Because Of Growing Crime?
Highlights Residents of high-crime communities are cut off from jobs and places to shop because of crime. No business will invest in communities deemed dangerous.…
View More Are Businesses-Jobs And Residents Disappearing Because Of Growing Crime?35,000 Threatened Or Physical Attacks With A Weapon In US Schools-School Security Report
Overview A reader wants insight into the recent Michigan school shooter. She wants to know if there is data as to what schools are doing…
View More 35,000 Threatened Or Physical Attacks With A Weapon In US Schools-School Security ReportWill Progressive Crime Policies Destroy Cities-And Democrats?
Highlights My “progressive” thought? Americans should live in peace and prosperity. You do that by holding criminal offenders accountable. Doubt that? Just ask the #MeToo…
View More Will Progressive Crime Policies Destroy Cities-And Democrats?Faculty Member Offers Podcast On Crime In America With Leonard Sipes
Podcast Background Jim Dudley, a faculty member at the San Francisco State University interviews Leonard Sipes, owner of Crime In America. Net on crime rates…
View More Faculty Member Offers Podcast On Crime In America With Leonard SipesSmash And Grab Robberies Won’t Be Stopped
Highlights Smash and grab robberies can’t be stopped per a former chief of police. He’s right. Here’s why. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal…
View More Smash And Grab Robberies Won’t Be StoppedIs Bail Reform Dying? 43 Percent Of Murder Suspects Bailed Or Out
Highlights Advocates claim there is no relationship between bail reform and increased crime. Police executives say the opposite. Who’s telling the truth? Either advocates for…
View More Is Bail Reform Dying? 43 Percent Of Murder Suspects Bailed Or Out
Can Proactive Policing Save American Cities?
Highlights There is a big increase in the criminal victimization of urban households in 2021, 30 percent compared to 22 percent in 2020. Local fear…
View More Can Proactive Policing Save American Cities?Local Fear Of Crime At Peak For The Past 25 Years
Highlights National and local perceptions/fear about crime are at or near their peak levels for the past 25 years. Americans are more likely to perceive…
View More Local Fear Of Crime At Peak For The Past 25 Years30 Percent Of Urban Households Victimized By Crime In 2021
Highlights-2021 There is a big increase in the criminal victimization of urban households in 2021, 30 percent compared to 22 percent in 2020. Seven percent…
View More 30 Percent Of Urban Households Victimized By Crime In 2021Criminals Prey On The Disabled And Vulnerable
Highlights The rate of violent victimization against persons with disabilities was nearly four times the rate for persons without disabilities. But the story regarding vulnerable…
View More Criminals Prey On The Disabled And VulnerableCops And Crime Changed American Politics
Highlights “Crime emerged as an issue in many of the mayoral races around the country.” Democratic strategist James Carvill: “What went wrong is just stupid…
View More Cops And Crime Changed American Politics
DOJ: Largest Increase In Homicides-Largest Decrease in Violence-Confused?
Highlights The Bureau of Justice Statistics states that the violent victimization rate dropped 22 percent in 2020. This is the largest decrease in violence ever reported…
View More DOJ: Largest Increase In Homicides-Largest Decrease in Violence-Confused?America-Spend More on Cops-The Great Reawakening
Highlights Calls to defund the police have hit a brick wall of increased violence, reality, and public opinion. “Anyone who says that more police don’t…
View More America-Spend More on Cops-The Great ReawakeningLaw Enforcement Is The Primary Provider Of Victim Services
Highlights Most referrals for services provided to crime victims come from law enforcement per the Department of Justice. If you include services from Victim Service…
View More Law Enforcement Is The Primary Provider Of Victim Services
Correctional Populations Fell Dramatically During Rising Violence
Highlights Violent crime and serious violent crime began to increase by 28 percent in 2015 per the US Department of Justice. The US had the…
View More Correctional Populations Fell Dramatically During Rising ViolenceDemand A Congressional Hearing For All Police Officers
Highlights Violent crime is exploding. Cops leaving and arrests plummeting may set off a wave of dangerousness that impacts cities and counties far beyond urban…
View More Demand A Congressional Hearing For All Police OfficersThe Crime Counter-Revolution Has Begun
Highlights Violent crime is exploding. Fear is at an all-time high. Firearm and security sales are going through the roof. People are leaving cities. Progressives…
View More The Crime Counter-Revolution Has BegunThe Number of Police Officers Leaving Law Enforcement
Highlights Are cops leaving the job? Do we have enough police officers? Are they properly funded? Does the Department of Justice have a plan for…
View More The Number of Police Officers Leaving Law Enforcement