Highlights Polling data show a mixed bag of results regarding public perceptions of law enforcement, some is harshly negative, some (based on interactions) is quite…
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Juvenile Arrests 70 Percent Below Peak-Adult Arrests Plummet
Highlights Arrests of adults and juveniles are down considerably. Why? What impact does this have on growing violence in cities? Is intense criticism of cops…
View More Juvenile Arrests 70 Percent Below Peak-Adult Arrests PlummetBiden-Give Me The Crime Issue And You’ll Never Have Trouble With It In An Election
Highlights Past Quotes From Joe Biden: “Give Me The Crime Issue And You’ll Never Have Trouble With It In An Election” “Violent crime is…
View More Biden-Give Me The Crime Issue And You’ll Never Have Trouble With It In An ElectionViolent 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?Protests, Law Enforcement And Crime Dominate The News And Presidential Debates
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 Protests, Law Enforcement And Crime Dominate The News And Presidential DebatesViolent Crime By Month And Time
There is a new and updated article for times of crime published in 2024, see The Time Of Day For Violent And Property Crimes. There…
View More Violent Crime By Month And TimePer The FBI-Overall Violent Crime Is Flat-Murder and Aggravated Assaults Increased During 2020
Highlights Per the FBI, violent crime was flat for the first six months of 2020 (decreased 0.4 percent). The number of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter…
View More Per The FBI-Overall Violent Crime Is Flat-Murder and Aggravated Assaults Increased During 2020Violent Crime Decreased in 2019 Per The National Crime Survey
Highlights Two reports from the US Department of Justice show decreases in violent crime in 2019. A variety of violent crime data for recent years…
View More Violent Crime Decreased in 2019 Per The National Crime SurveyPer Gallup, The Majority Of Americans Rate Police Encounters As Positive, Respectful and Fair
Highlights The data from a variety of sources indicate that those coming into contact with law enforcement (rather than a general public opinion poll) rate…
View More Per Gallup, The Majority Of Americans Rate Police Encounters As Positive, Respectful and FairUse of Force, Training And Costs For Police Agencies Per The USDOJ
Highlights-Police Policies Training, costs, community policing, use of force, use of blunt force projectiles (i.e., bean bags-rubber bullets), use of chemical agents (tear gas), active…
View More Use of Force, Training And Costs For Police Agencies Per The USDOJPeople And Businesses Leaving Cities Because Of Disturbances And Crime
Highlights People are leaving cities because of riots, crime and COVID. “The coronavirus is not the only reason those major cities are seeing an exodus…All…
View More People And Businesses Leaving Cities Because Of Disturbances And CrimeCongressional Committee-Is There Is A Potential Street War Brewing?
Highlights (abbreviated quotes-sources below) “I think we are coming into very dangerous waters over the next couple of months” “This is serious. I haven’t seen…
View More Congressional Committee-Is There Is A Potential Street War Brewing?81 Percent Express Confidence in Police Yet Polls Show Declines And Disparities
Highlights When adding all three categories in a recent Gallup poll, a great deal of confidence, quite a lot, and some, 81 percent expressed a…
View More 81 Percent Express Confidence in Police Yet Polls Show Declines And DisparitiesIncreasing Violent Crime In America Per Polls And University Data
Highlights Violent crime is up 28 percent since 2015 per the Department of Justice. Seventy-seven percent say they are concerned that crime is rising in…
View More Increasing Violent Crime In America Per Polls And University DataFunding Reduced For Most Police Agencies-Violence Increasing
Highlights Few law enforcement agencies, regardless of size, are being spared. It’s being called a “perfect storm” and the biggest budget cuts in a decade.…
View More Funding Reduced For Most Police Agencies-Violence IncreasingWhat The Public Thinks About Police Reform And Defunding
Highlights Per Gallup, “Most Americans Say Policing Needs Major Changes.” Every day brings more protests and endless videos of riots, looting, arson, graffiti, and assaults…
View More What The Public Thinks About Police Reform And DefundingSocial Workers And Cops-We Can’t Be All Things To All People
Highlights “We have a joke in policing, that cops hate two things: change and the way things are,” (social media response). Any sense that cops…
View More Social Workers And Cops-We Can’t Be All Things To All PeopleDefunding The Police? It Already Happened-Law Enforcement Expenditures Since 2000
Highlights National police spending has been relatively flat or has decreased in recent years. There is a twenty-eight percent increase in violence (with serious violent…
View More Defunding The Police? It Already Happened-Law Enforcement Expenditures Since 2000Social Workers Need To Step Up And Replace Cops
Highlights If you want to significantly reduce use of force issues in policing, social workers need to respond to many crisis situations. Being a cop…
View More Social Workers Need To Step Up And Replace CopsPer 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…
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