Editor’s Note: This article supports the nationally syndicated Armstrong Williams television show (I’ve been a guest many times) regarding crime in Baltimore City. I was…
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Is The US One Of The Most Dangerous Countries?
Highlights Gallup’s Law and Order Index rates countries as to safety and confidence in law enforcement. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal senior spokesperson.…
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The Homeless Are Far More Likely To Commit Crimes And To Be Victims
Highlights San Diego: experiencing homelessness have been involved with crime “at dramatically higher rates than the rest of the population,” whether as victims or offenders.…
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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?30 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 2021Low Income Or Fragile Communities Want More Cops
Highlights 68% of Chicago’s “fragile community” (i.e., low income) residents want a greater police presence. 54 percent of low-income communities nationally want more police officers.…
View More Low Income Or Fragile Communities Want More CopsSending The Wrong Messages To Criminals Encourages Crime
Highlights Offenders understand that the rules governing them have softened considerably. We are telling offenders that the justice system is backing down and that their…
View More Sending The Wrong Messages To Criminals Encourages CrimeDOJ May Publish The Most Dangerous And Fearful Cities Plus Opinions Of Police Agencies
Highlights-New Reports On The Future On Local Crime, Fear And Police Perceptions What’s being explored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the US…
View More DOJ May Publish The Most Dangerous And Fearful Cities Plus Opinions Of Police Agencies33% Increase In Urban Homicides-Rising Violence Continues In 2021
Highlights Violent crime, aggravated assaults and homicides increased in 2020. Rising violence continues for 2021. “Some cities are set to outpace last year’s numbers,” The…
View More 33% Increase In Urban Homicides-Rising Violence Continues In 2021Crime And Threats Cause People and Businesses To Move
Highlights Per Gallup, “when Americans felt under threat in their daily lives,” they express a desire to move. 48% now prefer to live in a…
View More Crime And Threats Cause People and Businesses To MoveExplaining COVID And Post Lockdown Violence
Highlights The bedrock of today’s violence could be the shock of the pandemic plus relaxed or disappearing enforcement. The increase in homicides, aggravated assaults, carjackings…
View More Explaining COVID And Post Lockdown ViolenceBiden’s Crime And Police Agenda Is Filled With Landmines
Highlights Does Mr. Biden have any police or crime control options that will not cost him politically? To rebuild high poverty areas and to create…
View More Biden’s Crime And Police Agenda Is Filled With LandminesViolent Crime And The Presidential Debate-Is Violence Up?
Highlights Presidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump will debate for the first time. One of the six topics is protests, crime and violence in…
View More Violent Crime And The Presidential Debate-Is Violence Up?Per Cops-No Justice-No Peace
Highlights No justice no peace? That’s what cops are saying to themselves by forgoing proactively. As a result, violence is increasing. If you condemn all…
View More Per Cops-No Justice-No PeaceCoronavirus And Crime: 62 Police Officers Dead-Violence And Burglaries Up In Some Cities
Highlights 62 (up from 54 when I wrote this) police officers have died from exposure to the Coronavirus. Thousands more are out sick. For the…
View More Coronavirus And Crime: 62 Police Officers Dead-Violence And Burglaries Up In Some CitiesMost Dangerous Cities For Rape Per The USDOJ
Highlights An overview of the cities with the highest rates of rape in the US from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice.…
View More Most Dangerous Cities For Rape Per The USDOJMost Dangerous Cities For Robbery
Highlights An overview of the cities with the highest rates of robbery in the US from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice.…
View More Most Dangerous Cities For Robbery30 Top Cities For Murder Rates Per the USDOJ
Highlights An overview of the thirty top homicide cities in the US in 2018 from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice. There…
View More 30 Top Cities For Murder Rates Per the USDOJThirty Most Violent Cities Based On Crime Rate-2018-USDOJ
Highlights An overview of the thirty most violent cities in the US in 2018 from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice. There…
View More Thirty Most Violent Cities Based On Crime Rate-2018-USDOJMost Violent Cities 2014-2018 Per The USDOJ
Highlights An overview of the most violent cities (based on a percentage increase) in the US from 2014-2018 from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, US…
View More Most Violent Cities 2014-2018 Per The USDOJ