Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. There are hundreds of media articles celebrating the reductions in reported crime as offered by the…
View More Per Gallup-Identity Theft And Scams Happen Far More Often Than All FBI Reported Crimes
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. After decades in the justice system (six years in law enforcement) with multiple university degrees, I…
View More Sorry Reporters-Why Crime Has No Easy Answers
Highlights This article was created to support my 35th appearance on the nationally syndicated Armstrong Williams show focusing on worldwide fear of crime. This article…
View More Is Prison The Answer? Fear Of Crime In The US, Europe And Central-South America
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Crimes reported to law enforcement are down throughout the country, yet fear of crime remains remarkably…
View More Are Americans Stupid When It Comes To Crime?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. New research from RAND explores the impact of violent crime and firearm violence on the Black…
View More New Data On Black Communities and Firearm Violence
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…
View More Police: “We’re Not Reporting All Crime”: A Persistent Claim Across American Cities
Highlights An early look at reported crime data for 2025 from the FBI. Numbers from the USDOJ’s National Crime Victimization Survey are included for comparison…
View More FBI Reported Preliminary Crime Data For 2025
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. This article recognizes National Crime Victims’ Rights Week and asks why states do not enforce compensation…
View More Most Offenders Do Not Pay Victim Restitution-National Crime Victims Week
Highlights Aggravated assault is defined by the FBI as “an unlawful attack by one person upon another wherein the offender uses a dangerous weapon or…
View More FBI Data-Aggravated Assaults And Firearms
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. This article addresses whether sexual assault of elderly women is so unlikely that it can reasonably…
View More Sexual Assault and Older Female Victims
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…
View More Fear Of Crime Continues To Decline in 2026 Per Gallup
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. For the first time in many years, jail admissions, incarcerations, and arrests seem to be increasing…
View More Are Crimes Solved Increasing? Is The Justice System Stabilizing?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. It includes states above the national averages for crime. Regardless of how crime is measured, the…
View More USDOJ-States With The Highest Rates For Violent And Property Crimes
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Most people are violently victimized by family members or people they know, according to the FBI.…
View More Most Crime Victims Know Their Offenders Per The FBI
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. “There have to be reasons for declining crime,” states one reader. What about jail and prison…
View More We’re Putting More People in Prison, Right? Reasons For Declining Reported Crime
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. ABC News: “Organized crime in Mexico is an immense problem and it’s not going anywhere. There…
View More Can Mexican Cartel Violence And Widespread Disinformation Happen Here?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Readers want to know the reasons for the reduction in crimes reported to law enforcement. This…
View More “There Have To Be Reasons For Declining Crime”-Arrest Statistics
This article is available as a YouTube video. Notes I rarely use outside writers for this site, but Kurt Wolfgang, the Executive Director of the…
View More Giving Crime Victims A Fighting Chance-A New National Victims Task Force
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. “Protecting people from crime is one of the government’s most fundamental and urgent responsibilities. However, the…
View More When Pigs Fly-Democratic Think Tanks Get Tough On Crime
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. An overview of how the USDOJ counts crime, including the use of the National Crime Victimization…
View More Official Crime Counts May Dramatically Understate US Criminality