“We’re Not Reporting All the Crime”: A Persistent Claim Across American Cities

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

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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Data On Black Communities and Firearm Violence

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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West Virginia Songwriter Praises Law Enforcement Through His Music

Highlights You’re lost at close to 5,000 feet in a fog bank on a mountain road. Your child needs medical care while traveling. You’re confronted…

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Newsrooms Need To Prepare-A Big Shake-Up Is Coming to America’s Crime Statistics

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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USDOJ-States With The Highest Rates For Violent And Property Crimes-2024

USDOJ-States With The Highest Rates For Violent And Property Crimes

Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. An overview of the states with the highest and lowest rates of violent and property crime…

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

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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USDOJ-States With The Highest Rates For Violent And Property Crimes-2024

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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Police Officer Deaths

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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Moving Because Of Crime

Crime Is The Number One Reason For Families Moving

Highlights Americans say a low crime rate (68%), low housing and living costs (66%), and good weather (62%) make a place desirable to live. Americans…

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Police Officer Deaths

The First Yearly Crime Report For 2023

Highlights An overview of the first full report on violent and property crimes for 2023 for select cities and the complexities involved in understanding the…

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Most Dangerous Places For Violent Crime

Locations Of Violent Crime-Where Crime Happens

Highlights The top ten locations for violent crime and observations as to why these places can be of concern. The article includes data from two…

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USDOJ-States With The Highest Rates For Violent And Property Crimes-2024

Violent Criminal Victimization By Race Or Hispanic Origin

Highlights An overview of rates and numbers of violent criminal victimizations by race and heritage, all common questions from politicians, students, and the media. Author…

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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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USDOJ-States With The Highest Rates For Violent And Property Crimes-2024

States Having The Highest Rates Of Violent And Property Crimes

Highlights Arizona, Colorado, and Washington states have much higher rates of violence when compared to other large states. Arizona, Colorado, California, Indiana, Texas, and Washington…

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

Foreign Criminals Coming To America Due To Lax Laws

Highlights Per the Daily Mail and the FBI, foreign criminals are coming to America because they believe that laws and enforcement have changed. If foreign…

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USDOJ-States With The Highest Rates For Violent And Property Crimes-2024

Most Dangerous Big Cities? Rural-Suburbs-Small Cities Can Have Higher Rates Of Violence

\HighlightsIs violence principally a big city problem? Rural areas or suburbs or small cities can have higher rates of violence than large cities. This article…

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Aggressive Police Media Relations And Hot Spot Policing

Highlights One Florida Sheriff-One House-One Very Public Message On Hot Spot Policing. Law enforcement public outreach efforts create community support and enhance citizen satisfaction. Author …

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Ten Most Dangerous Locations for Violent Crime in the United States

Author By Leonard A. Sipes, Jr. Thirty-five years of supervising public affairs for national and state criminal justice agencies. Former Senior Specialist for Crime Prevention for…

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What Are My Chances Of Being A Victim Of Violent Crime? Updated

Crime in America.Net. Updated in 2020. Summation Our chances for violent victimization are more controlled by what we do than by who we are. Notes…

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