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. Researchers placed AI agents into virtual societies and allowed them to interact with minimal human supervision.…
View More Crime Emerged When AI Agents Created Their Own Society
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 This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Per a reader’s request, the article lists the primary factors that contribute to violent and overall…
View More Top Factors That Contribute To Violent Crime
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. FBI crime statistics reflect crime trends based on incidents reported to police, but are vastly incomplete…
View More Is FBI Data A Reliable Count Of National Crime?
Summation This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Statistics on parole and probation from the Bureau of Justice Statistics are offered for 2023. 2024 data will…
View More Felonies And Violent Crimes-Increasing Part Of Parole And Probation Caseloads
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. Examples from California, Oregon, and other areas indicate that many (most?) drug offenders do not want…
View More Many Criminal Offenders Do Not Want Drug Treatment
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Of approximately 708,000 sworn U.S. police officers, about 57,000 left their jobs in 2020, while roughly…
View More 64,000 Full-Time Police Vacancies In One Year Per The USDOJ
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. “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. 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
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. Our reputation depends on how we communicate and how often we create media to accent our…
View More Winning the Middle: Improved Media Strategies for Police And Justice Agencies