Summation There were considerable decreases in violent and property crime in 2024. In 2024, reported LEOKA assaults ─ which include aggravated and simple assault offenses…
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Category: Fear of Crime
Safer, Smarter, Richer: Why Criminals Are Leaving the Streets for Screens
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube video. Is there a shift from street crimes to digital fraud and organized property crimes?…
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21 US Cities Rank Among the World’s Most Dangerous
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube video. There is an index ranking 385 cities throughout the world. Crime is one of the measures…
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Black Perceptions Of Police–Highest Confidence Levels Recorded By Gallup
Summation This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Although Black Americans’ positive impressions of each measure have been at the majority level since 2021,…
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If Crime Is Down, Why Is Fear Up? Are Americans Delusional?
Highlights This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. Per Gallup, the US and Canada are the only sections of the world (beyond Sub-Saharan…
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Will Trump Change National Crime Statistics? Are We Getting Accurate Crime Data?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Per an executive order, President Trump wants to “increase the investment in and collection,…
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Immigrants and Crime: What the Numbers Say–And What They Don’t
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Updated six times since publication. Considering the popularity of this article, additional sections have been added…
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What Groups Are Victimized the Most By Crime? Crime’s Shifting Landscape
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Criminal offenders gravitate to people, places, and things perceived as easier targets with successful or bigger…
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How Many People With Criminal Histories Do We Interact With Daily?
Highlights You, your spouse, and your children interact daily with people who have criminal histories. Acknowledging this and evaluating potentially menacing or uncomfortable situations keeps…
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Cops And Crime Control–Does Society Know What It Wants?
Highlights We must decide what we want from law enforcement before we lose thousands of additional cops and endanger public safety. At the moment, proactive…
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We Ignore The USDOJ’s 44 Percent Increase In Violent Crime-Why?
Highlights “The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is the nation’s primary source of information on criminal victimization,” the US Census Bureau. No one is saying…
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The Distressing Status Of Arrests, Crimes Solved And Incarcerations
Highlights For the first time in many years, incarcerations and arrests, seem to be increasing with a slight expansion of police officers after losing 25,000…
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Millions Of Crimes Are Not Included In FBI Yearly Reports
Highlights This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. Understanding crime numbers and rates in America isn’t easy. Per FBI data, crime is down.…
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120 Million Porch Package Thefts–More Than All FBI Property Crimes
Highlights There are 120 million porch package thefts in the US. Searches for “stolen package” spike every December, according to Google Trends. The survey indicated…
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Firearm Violence Statistics–281,000 Victims Used Firearms To Defend Themselves
Highlights In 2023, the rate of nonfatal firearm violence was 2.0 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older, down 72% from 7.3 per 1,000…
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Cops, Crime And Why Trump Won-Per Pundits, The Left Is “Out Of Touch”
Listen to a podcast of this article on Spotify or view it on YouTube. Quotes Democratic strategist James Carville, “defund the police” were “the three…
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They Mislead You About Crime-One Reason Why Trump Won
Quotes “An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading,…
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Gallup-The US And Canada Feel Less Safe Because of Crime-Podcast Available
Highlights Podcasts of this article are available on Spotify and YouTube. A world review of citizen perceptions of safety. The United States and Canada (and…
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Firearm Related Death Is More Acute For Black and Latino Men Than Deployed U.S. Soldiers
Highlights Hear a podcast of this article on Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, and other audio-video sources. A recent study demonstrates that the risk of firearm-related death…
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The Reality of Crime: Simplifying Stats and Fear Of Crime For Today’s Reader
Highlights Hear a podcast of this article on Spotify. An explanation of recent and older crime and fear of crime statistics and research for the…
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