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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Category: Victimization
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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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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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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Most Stolen Cars And Trucks-Auto Theft Is Up 42 Percent In Cities
Highlights Car and truck theft is exploding because of videos and news reports as to how easy it is to steal vehicles. Vehicle theft is…
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Juvenile Arrests-Incarcerations Decreased By 78%
Highlights Juvenile arrests for violent crimes are down by 78 percent. Juveniles incarcerated in adult jails and prisons decreased by 78 percent. “We arrested four…
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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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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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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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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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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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Crime And Violence Remains A Top Priority For Most Americans
Highlights If you combine the topics like terrorism (60 percent), crime (57 percent), and illegal drugs (53 percent), justice-related and crime issues are the clear…
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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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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…
View More Prison Inmates-9 Prior Arrests-4 Million Total Arrests-42 Percent Had 5-10 IncarcerationsSchool 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 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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Judging Future Criminality Through Risk Assessments-USDOJ
Highlights The National Institute Of Justice offers data on which incarcerated groups have the highest rates of recidivism (i.e. arrests and incarcerations). We were…
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Has Police Reform Resulted In Thousands Of Crime And Accident Victims?
Highlights Fear of crime is at record highs. Nearly 43,000 people died in U.S. traffic crashes in 2021, the highest number in 16 years. There…
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Recognizing Mass Shooters And Potential Attacks In Public Places-Federal Research
Highlights An overview of two recent documents on mass shootings and mass shooters from the US Secret Service and the National Institute of Justice. Both…
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Characteristics Of High-Crime Communities-Dangers To Children
Highlights Where crime is concentrated? Income and location mean much to parents rating neighborhoods as to potential dangers to their children. It’s a unique and…
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