Record One To Two Billion in Insurance Damages Due To 2020 Riots-Election Violence Possible

Highlights If most of the 2020 protests were “peaceful,” they are coming at an extraordinary cost beyond people leaving cities, rising violent crime, and increasing…

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Violent Crime Decreased in 2019 Per The National Crime Survey

Highlights Two reports from the US Department of Justice show decreases in violent crime in 2019. A variety of violent crime data for recent years…

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People And Businesses Leaving Cities Because Of Disturbances And Crime

Highlights People are leaving cities because of riots, crime and COVID. “The coronavirus is not the only reason those major cities are seeing an exodus…All…

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Congressional Committee-Is There Is A Potential Street War Brewing?

Highlights (abbreviated quotes-sources below) “I think we are coming into very dangerous waters over the next couple of months” “This is serious. I haven’t seen…

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Increasing Violent Crime In America Per Polls And University Data

Highlights Violent crime is up 28 percent since 2015 per the Department of Justice. Seventy-seven percent say they are concerned that crime is rising in…

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Funding Reduced For Most Police Agencies-Violence Increasing

Highlights Few law enforcement agencies, regardless of size, are being spared. It’s being called a “perfect storm” and the biggest budget cuts in a decade.…

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What The Public Thinks About Police Reform And Defunding

Highlights Per Gallup, “Most Americans Say Policing Needs Major Changes.” Every day brings more protests and endless videos of riots, looting, arson, graffiti, and assaults…

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Social Workers And Cops-We Can’t Be All Things To All People

Highlights “We have a joke in policing, that cops hate two things: change and the way things are,” (social media response). Any sense that cops…

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Defunding The Police? It Already Happened-Law Enforcement Expenditures Since 2000

Highlights National police spending has been relatively flat or has decreased in recent years. There is a twenty-eight percent increase in violence (with serious violent…

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Social Workers Need To Step Up And Replace Cops

Highlights If you want to significantly reduce use of force issues in policing, social workers need to respond to many crisis situations. Being a cop…

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Per Cops-No Justice-No Peace

Highlights No justice no peace?  That’s what cops are saying to themselves by forgoing proactively. As a result, violence is increasing. If you condemn all…

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Is Crime Control Dead?

Highlights If crime control is no longer the priority then be prepared for major changes that citizens will find abhorrent. There has to be some…

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Public Confidence In The Police Is Stronger Than You Think

Highlights The recruitment of cops is down 63 percent. Officers are calling in sick throughout the country. A DC police union survey says 71 percent…

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Arrests and Police Contacts Plummet While Violence Increases

Highlights Per the US Department of Justice, violent crime increased 28 percent since 2015. Serious violent crime is also increasing. This is happening while arrests…

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Federal Research-Long Prison Sentences Significantly Reduce Crime And Recidivism

Highlights In the two models with the larger sample sizes, offenders incarcerated for more than 120 months were approximately 30 percent less likely to recidivate.…

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Criminal Rehabilitation Programs-Some Work-Most Don’t

Offender Rehabilitation And Reentry Programs-What Works “Programs that included group work, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) or CBT-like components, counseling, or that used drug court or other…

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Why Are Prison Numbers Falling?

Highlights Why are prison numbers falling? Are reductions due to criminal justice reform or dramatically reduced crime, arrests, and citizen contacts? An estimated 1,465,200 prisoners…

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Federal And State Offenders Highly Mobile-30 To 60 Percent Had Convictions In Multiple States

Highlights Federal offenders seem to be highly mobile. If we include arrests and prosecutions along with convictions, the percentages from other states would be much…

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Coronavirus And Crime-Gun Violence Increases Nationally-82 Police Officers Dead

Highlights 82 police officers have died from exposure to the Coronavirus. Thousands more are out sick. More than 2,000 gun deaths in the United States…

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