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. Gallup documents a considerable decrease in confidence for the American institutions measured. The law enforcement profession,…
View More Per Gallup-Confidence In American Police Exceeds Most Other Institutions
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 was created to support my 35th appearance on the nationally syndicated Armstrong Williams show focusing on worldwide fear of crime. This article…
View More Is Prison The Answer? Fear Of Crime In The US, Europe And Central-South America
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?
Summation This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Statistics on parole and probation from the Bureau of Justice Statistics are offered for 2023. 2024 data will…
View More Felonies And Violent Crimes-Increasing Part Of Parole And Probation Caseloads
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. This article recognizes National Crime Victims’ Rights Week and asks why states do not enforce compensation…
View More Most Offenders Do Not Pay Victim Restitution-National Crime Victims Week
Highlights Aggravated assault is defined by the FBI as “an unlawful attack by one person upon another wherein the offender uses a dangerous weapon or…
View More FBI Data-Aggravated Assaults And Firearms
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 Ten officers have been feloniously killed in the first 3 months of 2026. CrimeinAmerica.Net-Chat GPT’s “Top 10 Sources for Crime in America” based on…
View More Police Officer Deaths-January-March 2026
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