Highlights Arrests of adults and juveniles are down considerably. Why? What impact does this have on growing violence in cities? Is intense criticism of cops…
View More Juvenile Arrests 70 Percent Below Peak-Adult Arrests PlummetTag: police
Per Gallup, The Majority Of Americans Rate Police Encounters As Positive, Respectful and Fair
Highlights The data from a variety of sources indicate that those coming into contact with law enforcement (rather than a general public opinion poll) rate…
View More Per Gallup, The Majority Of Americans Rate Police Encounters As Positive, Respectful and FairUse of Force, Training And Costs For Police Agencies Per The USDOJ
Highlights-Police Policies Training, costs, community policing, use of force, use of blunt force projectiles (i.e., bean bags-rubber bullets), use of chemical agents (tear gas), active…
View More Use of Force, Training And Costs For Police Agencies Per The USDOJPeople 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…
View More People And Businesses Leaving Cities Because Of Disturbances And CrimeCongressional 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…
View More Congressional Committee-Is There Is A Potential Street War Brewing?81 Percent Express Confidence in Police Yet Polls Show Declines And Disparities
Highlights When adding all three categories in a recent Gallup poll, a great deal of confidence, quite a lot, and some, 81 percent expressed a…
View More 81 Percent Express Confidence in Police Yet Polls Show Declines And DisparitiesFunding 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.…
View More Funding Reduced For Most Police Agencies-Violence IncreasingWhat 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…
View More What The Public Thinks About Police Reform And DefundingSocial 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…
View More Social Workers And Cops-We Can’t Be All Things To All PeopleDefunding 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…
View More Defunding The Police? It Already Happened-Law Enforcement Expenditures Since 2000