Highlights Criminal justice reformers are unwilling to defend their principles in controversial cases. I’m for criminal justice reform, but the lack of consistency in the…
View More We Demand Long Prison Terms For Serious CrimesCategory: Violent Offenders
Does Bail Reform Include Unsupervised Defendants?
Highlights If we are going to release the vast majority of defendants without an agency’s supervision and assistance, we are asking for the downfall of…
View More Does Bail Reform Include Unsupervised Defendants?Can Communities Decide Their Law Enforcement?
Highlights Politicians, newspaper editors, cities and communities need to be held accountable for their own crime problems. Mandating aggressive enforcement in communities that don’t want…
View More Can Communities Decide Their Law Enforcement?New Group Seeks To Reform Parole and Probation
Highlights There is no national strategy for parole and probation, there is no research consensus. Programs routinely fail. Recidivism is extremely high. Author Leonard Adam…
View More New Group Seeks To Reform Parole and ProbationAre Cops Afraid To Make Arrests?
Highlights There is a variety of data suggesting that police officers are less willing to engage in proactive or self-initiated arrests. An estimated 150,000 cops show up…
View More Are Cops Afraid To Make Arrests?Violence Against Women Increasing
Crime Against Women Highlights Violence against women is growing. An analysis of 4,484 killings of women in 47 major U.S. cities over the past decade…
View More Violence Against Women IncreasingViolent Offenders Drive Crime and Incarceration
Highlights Violent repeat offenders are driving America’s crime problem. Data from the US Sentencing Commission (below) and other sources suggest that repeat offenders who committed…
View More Violent Offenders Drive Crime and Incarceration“Dirt Bags Taking Our Lives” Houston Police Shootings
Observations Firearm-related deaths of police officers are up thirteen percent. Over 60,000 police officers are assaulted. “We are sick and tired of dirt bags trying to take…
View More “Dirt Bags Taking Our Lives” Houston Police ShootingsTelling The Truth About Parole and Probation
Highlights Are we misleading the public about parole and probation? If we can’t start with the truth, we are the problem, not the solution. Author…
View More Telling The Truth About Parole and ProbationIs America Entering a New Era of Increasing Violence?
Highlights America may be entering a new era of increasing violent crime. The number of persons who had been victims of violent crime is up…
View More Is America Entering a New Era of Increasing Violence?Violent Crime Victims and Offenders
Highlights Many reader questions regarding violent crime victims and offenders are answered by a recent report from the National Crime Survey from the Bureau of…
View More Violent Crime Victims and OffendersCriminals And Guns-Why Cops Are Concerned
Highlights A very high percentage of violent offenders use or carry firearms per federal sources. What this means for police-involved shootings and public policy. Author…
View More Criminals And Guns-Why Cops Are ConcernedViolent Crime Increasing in the US
Highlights Violent crime is increasing. For the National Crime Survey, most of the sixteen categories of violent crime rates increased from 2015 to 2017. First…
View More Violent Crime Increasing in the USIf You Don’t Trust Cops, You Don’t Report Crimes?
Highlights Per new research, if you don’t trust cops, you’re less likely to report crimes. But people don’t report crimes for a wide variety of…
View More If You Don’t Trust Cops, You Don’t Report Crimes?Most Violent Prisoners Serve Less Than Three Years in Prison
Highlights More than half (57 percent) of violent offenders served less than three years in prison per a new DOJ report. The average time an…
View More Most Violent Prisoners Serve Less Than Three Years in Prison
The Criminally Insane, The Mentally Ill And Crime
Highlights Most offenders have forms of depression, anxiety, PTSD, brain injuries and mental illness. Cops and correctional officers wonder why situations deteriorate so quickly.…
View More The Criminally Insane, The Mentally Ill And Crime#MeToo Collides With Kavanaugh And Justice Reform
Highlights Accountability for offenders committing acts of violence against women is necessary. But criminal responsibility is gender neutral. Legally, what you do for one, you…
View More #MeToo Collides With Kavanaugh And Justice ReformWe Demand That Cops Be Warriors
Observations If the public demands quick resolutions to school and mass shootings or acts of terrorism, they are also insisting on military training and equipment.…
View More We Demand That Cops Be WarriorsViolence, School Achievement and Future Criminality
Observations Schoolchildren exposed to violence have a tougher time learning. Violence also affects the success of people caught up in the criminal justice system. If…
View More Violence, School Achievement and Future CriminalityBaltimore Crime And American Policing
Background USA Today offered an analysis addressing why Baltimore has become America’s deadliest city. Their article examined police “disengagement” as an explanation for the profound…
View More Baltimore Crime And American Policing