Is National FBI Data A Reliable Source For Property Crimes?

FBI Crime Data For 2022-Increases Exceed Decreases For Most Categories

Highlights National crime statistics reported by the FBI for 2022 (crimes reported to law enforcement) are below. There are multiple sources of information on crime…

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

Who’s Charged With Human Trafficking?

Highlights The numbers for human trafficking seem low compared to the scope of the problem. Out of those charged 68% had no prior convictions. Due…

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

Is Violence Rising Or Falling? Understanding Quirks Within The National Crime Victimization Survey

Highlights Analyzing national violence and property crime statistics can cause mental whiplash. Understanding crime in America has never been more challenging.  For the upcoming elections,…

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Most People Victimized By People They Know

Is Fear The Most Important Crime Statistic?

Highlights Public safety is the highest priority for people moving. Fear of crime is at record levels. Crime was a top concern during the midterm…

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Top Factors That Contribute To Violent Crime

US Violence Is Both Increasing And Decreasing? Who’s Right?

Highlights We have a paradox, significantly rising violence and serious violence in 2022 per the National Crime Victimization Survey and mostly decreasing violent crime in…

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

Big Increases In Categories Of Violent Victimization in The United States

Background   The newly released report from the Bureau Of Justice Statistics of the US Department of Justice is Criminal Victimization, 2022. It’s based on…

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The Quiet Truth Behind Baltimore's Violence Reduction: It’s Not the Programs—It’s the Pressure

Cities Ranked For Fear Of Crime-Do Crime Rates Impact Fear?

Highlights Gallup offers a poll on perceptions of crime-related safety for 16 American cities.  Do one-year reductions or increases in city crime rates or totals…

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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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Increasing Violent Crime

Concern Over Violent and Property Crime Data For 2023

Highlights As crime continues to spike in Oakland, demands for action from city and community leaders are growing louder. Statistics show that not only is crime…

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Fear Of Crime High In The US-World Crime Rankings From Gallup

Did Homicides and Violence Decrease In 2023?

Highlights There is data stating that homicides and violence are down for select cities for the first half of 2023. Ten cities experienced an increase…

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The Quiet Truth Behind Baltimore's Violence Reduction: It’s Not the Programs—It’s the Pressure

Are Mayors Getting Tough On Crime And Criminals?

Highlights “Biden bucks liberals and tells Democrats to get tough on crime.” “We are in a state of emergency right now.” “I think that people…

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Nearly Six In 10 Mayors Called Juvenile Crime “Serious Or Very Serious”

Are Billions Of Dollars In Community-Based Violence Programs Worth The Expenditure?

Highlights There’s nothing wrong with trying new community-based crime control strategies. The problem is what seems intuitive to so many doesn’t mean that programs will…

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Official Crime Counts Dramatically Understate US Criminality

Women Offenders-Over Half Of Violent Females Were Arrested Within 5 Years Of Release

Highlights More than half of females (55%, compared to 66% of males) who were serving time for a violent offense were arrested for another offense.…

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How Many People Are Victimized By Crime Each Year

African American Confidence In Law Enforcement

  Highlights Approximately 70 to 89 percent of Black respondents provided positive ratings of law enforcement ranging from a willingness to contact police in the…

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Fear Of Crime In The US-Europe And Central-South America

Prison Inmates-9 Prior Arrests-4 Million Total Arrests-42 Percent Had 5-10 Incarcerations

  Highlights This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. The 369,200 persons admitted to state prison in 34 states had an estimated 4.2…

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School Crime-Per The CDC-Weapons Used In High School Crime Declines

Highlights While there are understandable concerns about mass shootings, those threatened or injured with weapons (firearms-knives-clubs) in high schools decreased for males from 10 percent…

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Does anything work to reduce crime?

Does Crime Increase After Federal Police Consent Agreements?

Highlights Do federal court-ordered police consent decrees increase crime? For some cities, the answer is yes. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal senior spokesperson.…

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