Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Do criminals have a communication network? Criminal offenders tend to gravitate towards people, places, and things…
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Observations This article is available as a YouTube podcast. There are indications of an increasing pretrial jail population, which “may” reflect a growing concern that…
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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…
View More If Crime Is Down, Why Is Fear Up? Are Americans Delusional?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast For the last full official report in 2023, the FBI estimates that overall property crime (i.e.,…
View More FBI: Cybercrime Up 33 Percent-Other Property Crimes Increase-But FBI Property Crime Is Decreasing?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Per an executive order, President Trump wants to “increase the investment in and collection,…
View More Will Trump Change National Crime Statistics? Are We Getting Accurate Crime Data?
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…
View More Immigrants and Crime: What the Numbers Say–And What They Don’t
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…
View More What Groups Are Victimized the Most By Crime? Crime’s Shifting Landscape
Highlights Artificial Intelligence (AI) will soon be a significant part of the lives of people in law enforcement and the rest of the justice…
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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…
View More How Many People With Criminal Histories Do We Interact With Daily?
Highlights There’s no national consensus as to what we want from parole and probation employees or agencies. Parole and probation agents supervise and…
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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…
View More We Ignore The USDOJ’s 44 Percent Increase In Violent Crime-Why?
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…
View More The Distressing Status Of Arrests, Crimes Solved And Incarcerations
Highlights Most crimes involve reduced charges or dropped or deferred prosecutions. Concessions through plea-bargains, dropped charges, and limited prison sentences are seen as necessary to…
View More How Many Crimes Are Prosecuted In The United States?
Highlights We are on the verge of a new and better way of analyzing crime data through the FBI’s emerging National Incident-Based Reporting System. But…
View More Update-The FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System Greatly Improves
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.…
View More Millions Of Crimes Are Not Included In FBI Yearly Reports
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…
View More 120 Million Porch Package Thefts–More Than All FBI Property Crimes
Highlights Nine percent of violent crimes involve firearms per the USDOJ. Nonfatal firearm violence has dropped considerably. 400 million Americans own firearms. Support for a…
View More Is The Effort To Control Or Ban Handguns Over?
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…
View More Firearm Violence Statistics–281,000 Victims Used Firearms To Defend Themselves
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…
View More Cops, Crime And Why Trump Won-Per Pundits, The Left Is “Out Of Touch”
Highlights The FBI released six months of reported crime data for 2024. The reasons for treating the data cautiously are below. This article covers three…
View More USDOJ: Record Increase in Violence “Or” Violent Crime Declined 10 Percent For January-June 2024