Mayors Want More Arrests-Is This Our Last Chance To Control Crime?

Highlights Will cops return to proactive policing without assurances and guidelines? Are there firm rules of engagement? Chicago Mayor Lightfoot deems 2022 ‘make-or-break year’ for…

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Does The USDOJ Want To Defund Prisons And Release Violent Offenders?

Highlights The US Department of Justice issued a press release stating that it wants to reduce incarceration. You can’t do that without releasing or deferring…

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Businesses And Jobs Disappear Because Of Crime

Are Businesses-Jobs And Residents Disappearing Because Of Growing Crime?

Highlights Residents of high-crime communities are cut off from jobs and places to shop because of crime. No business will invest in communities deemed dangerous.…

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The Recidivism Of Violent Offenders

Over 40 Percent Of Prison Inmates Had Five To Ten Prior Incarcerations

Highlights Seventy-eight percent of inmates had previous incarcerations. Forty-two percent had 5-10 or more incarcerations. The vast majority of prison inmates have multiple previous arrests…

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40% Decrease In Prison Admissions in 2020-Impact On Growing Violence

Highlights The correlation between new criminality and incarceration (or lack of incarceration) seems strong based on rapidly rising violence. The imprisonment rate for 2020 represented…

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35,000 Threatened Or Physical Attacks With A Weapon In US Schools-School Security Report

Overview A reader wants insight into the recent Michigan school shooter. She wants to know if there is data as to what schools are doing…

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Will Progressive Crime Policies Destroy Cities-And Democrats?

Highlights My “progressive” thought? Americans should live in peace and prosperity. You do that by holding criminal offenders accountable. Doubt that? Just ask the #MeToo…

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Faculty Member Offers Podcast On Crime In America With Leonard Sipes

Podcast Background Jim Dudley, a faculty member at the San Francisco State University interviews Leonard Sipes, owner of Crime In America. Net on crime rates…

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Firearm Offenders Have Highest Rate of New Crimes

Highlights Firearm offenders are arrested at the highest levels after release. Firearm use during crimes of violence is increasing. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired…

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Smash And Grab Robberies Won’t Be Stopped

Highlights Smash and grab robberies can’t be stopped per a former chief of police. He’s right. Here’s why. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal…

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Is Bail Reform Dying? 43 Percent Of Murder Suspects Bailed Or Out

Highlights Advocates claim there is no relationship between bail reform and increased crime. Police executives say the opposite. Who’s telling the truth? Either advocates for…

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

Can Proactive Policing Save American Cities?

Highlights There is a big increase in the criminal victimization of urban households in 2021, 30 percent compared to 22 percent in 2020. Local fear…

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Criminals Prey On The Disabled And Vulnerable

Highlights The rate of violent victimization against persons with disabilities was nearly four times the rate for persons without disabilities. But the story regarding vulnerable…

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Cops And Crime Changed American Politics

Highlights “Crime emerged as an issue in many of the mayoral races around the country.” Democratic strategist James Carvill: “What went wrong is just stupid…

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

DOJ: Largest Increase In Homicides-Largest Decrease in Violence-Confused?

Highlights The Bureau of Justice Statistics states that the violent victimization rate dropped 22 percent in 2020. This is the largest decrease in violence ever reported…

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Citizens And law Enforcement

Do Violence Interrupters Really Work?

Highlights Are violence interrupters effective? Does CURE violence work? A respected national criminal justice publication states that in CURE Violence initiatives, “Shootings Fell By 73…

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Federal Recidivism-Dangerous Offenders Arrested More-Longer Sentences Means Less Crime

Highlights The recidivism rate of federal prison inmates hasn’t changed despite efforts to use graduated sanctions or other alternatives to incarceration. Probation, parole, and supervision…

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Replacing Cops With Social Workers in “Crisis”

Highlights Social workers are so backlogged that it can take a week or more to respond to urgent 911 calls. Police reform may have support…

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Violent Crime Increases in 2021

Highlights Preliminary data for 2021 from non-federal sources indicate that violence continues to increase. Homicides increased by nearly 30 percent in 2020. Overall violence and…

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