“We’re Not Reporting All the Crime”: A Persistent Claim Across American Cities

Red Flag Laws And Other Impossible Police-Justice Reforms

Highlights Red flag laws are impossible to effectively enforce. We within the justice system knew that when they were introduced. What most want in terms…

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Gun Violence And The Dangerous Nature Of Firearm Offenders

Highlights Firearm offenders are generally younger, have a more extensive criminal history, and are more likely to commit a new crime than other offenders. 93.6…

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Big Increases in Crime In 2022-Homicides Decrease Slightly

Highlights When considering the crime categories with the largest numbers (aggravated assaults, larcenies, robberies, vehicle thefts, burglaries), the early indicators suggest an increase in overall…

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How Many Nonfatal Shootings End In An Arrest?

Highlights Per the examples below, the vast majority of nonfatal shootings do not end in an arrest. It will take money, technology, public support, and…

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Females And Groups Victimized More By Crime

Highlights Some groups are victimized considerably more than others. Others have low rates of violence but have high rates of property crimes. Per the Bureau…

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Long Prison Sentences Reduce Crime Per Federal Study

Highlights Released offenders committed well over two million new crimes per the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The odds of recidivism were approximately 29 percent lower…

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The Best Evidence As To Why We Have Rapidly Increasing Violence

Highlights The justice system is based on deterrence through crime reporting, crime solving, arrests, prosecution, and accountability through the correctional system. Decreases in any of…

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Discovering That Growing Violence Doesn’t Have A Solution

Highlights Violent crime is rapidly rising. Violent criminals have little fear of being caught or held accountable. Mass shooters (the majority of which are street-level…

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The CDC’s Homicide-Firearms Data Creates A Firestorm Of Media Misinformation

Highlights Why are firearms the key or only element of crime discussions? Are there an array of issues we are ignoring? Why does the media…

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23 Million Americans Are Victims Of Identity Theft Costing Over 15 Billion Dollars

Highlights Per the USDOJ, 23 million persons reported that they had been victims of identity theft during the prior 12 months costing $15.1 billion. Based…

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Public Opinion And Crime-Fear-Policy And Politics

Highlights Polling by Gallup showed that violent crime is a concern among 80% of Americans. National and local perceptions/fear about crime are at or near…

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Gun Violence-It’s Not What You Think-New DOJ Data

Highlights The overwhelming majority of violence doesn’t involve firearms. When firearms are used, the overwhelming majority of violence (including mass shootings) is committed with handguns.…

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Most Offenders Do Not Pay Court-Ordered Fines and Restitution

Decriminalization-One Percent Of Drug Users Ask For Treatment-Overdose Deaths Soar

Highlights In Oregon, only 1 percent of people who received citations for possessing hard drugs asked for treatment. Half showed up for court. State health…

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Most Americans Are Victimized By Crime-National Crime Victims’ Rights Week

Highlights National Crime Victims Rights Week is April 24-30. Most Americans are victimized by crime. We examine a survey of 711 crime survivors in California;…

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Per Multiple Publications-“Dems Retreat On Crime And Police Reform”

Highlights Defunding the police and cutting the prison population in half are ideas rejected by the vast majority of Americans regardless of demographics. Democrats are…

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12,353 Police Employees Left Law Enforcement Along With 1,361 State Police Per BLS

Highlights Over 12,000 local police officers and employees have left their jobs per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Per separate BLS charts, there was an…

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Washington Post Says Social Programs Dramatically Reduced Homicides-Are They Right?

Foreign Criminals Coming To America Due To Lax Laws

Highlights Per the Daily Mail and the FBI, foreign criminals are coming to America because they believe that laws and enforcement have changed. If foreign…

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Cops To President Biden-Keep Your 30 Billion-Change Your Policies

Highlights The comments of police officers (and others) as to the President’s $30 billion in new police spending over the next decade. Police officers are…

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Police Officer Deaths

The Homeless Are Far More Likely To Commit Crimes And To Be Victims

Highlights San Diego: experiencing homelessness have been involved with crime “at dramatically higher rates than the rest of the population,” whether as victims or offenders.…

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Biden Proposes $30 Billion To Expand Law Enforcement As Cops Continue To Leave

Highlights Police officers are leaving. Per media reports, there are cities that don’t have enough police officers to respond to 911 calls. President Biden proposes…

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