Highlights Compared with just a few years ago, fewer teenagers are: Drinking alcohol. Binge drinking. Smoking cigarettes. Vaping nicotine. Using marijuana. Beginning to use alcohol…
View More Good News For Youth Substance Abuse And Mental Health—Why That Matters for Crime
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Extensive literature reviews from impartial, prestigious research organizations on crime and justice operations are rare. The…
View More Cutting Crime By A Third: Proactive Policing Works—Will We Use It?
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 is available as a YouTube podcast. Per Gallup, seventeen percent of Democrats say that crime in the US is not serious, versus…
View More Gallup-Four Out Of Five Democrats View Crime As A Serious National Concern
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 An early look at reported crime data for 2025 from the FBI. Numbers from the USDOJ’s National Crime Victimization Survey are included for comparison…
View More FBI Reported Preliminary Crime Data For 2025
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?
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. The criminological literature is very clear: fear of crime concerns can destroy cities, the psychological well-being…
View More Fear Of Crime Continues To Decline in 2026 Per Gallup
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. “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 There are now 70 YouTube podcasts available from Crime In America.Net (https://crimeinamerica.net). Crime In Americ.Net is a 16-year-old website addressing crime and justice issues.…
View More Podcasts On Policing-Crime And Justice From Crime In America.Net
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. An overview of how the USDOJ counts crime, including the use of the National Crime Victimization…
View More Official Crime Counts May Dramatically Understate US Criminality
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. It’s unrealistic to expect that limited social interactions by violence interrupters and program providers are going…
View More Cities Say Social Programs Reduced Homicides-Are They Right?