Highlights Juvenile arrests for violent crimes are down by 78 percent. Juveniles incarcerated in adult jails and prisons decreased by 78 percent. “We arrested four…
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Concern Over Violent and Property Crime Data For 2023
Highlights As crime continues to spike in Oakland, demands for action from city and community leaders are growing louder. Statistics show that not only is crime…
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Confidence In The Police Compared To Other Institutions
Highlights While it’s true that relentless media coverage of police use of force issues resulted in a hit to the reputation of the profession, within…
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Did Homicides and Violence Decrease In 2023?
Highlights There is data stating that homicides and violence are down for select cities for the first half of 2023. Ten cities experienced an increase…
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Are Mayors Getting Tough On Crime And Criminals?
Highlights “Biden bucks liberals and tells Democrats to get tough on crime.” “We are in a state of emergency right now.” “I think that people…
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Will People Stop Calling The Police? Response Times Increase Dramatically
Highlights The dynamics of response times have real implications for law enforcement policy. Community-based policing is promoted in just about every research study to improve…
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Are Billions Of Dollars In Community-Based Violence Programs Worth The Expenditure?
Highlights There’s nothing wrong with trying new community-based crime control strategies. The problem is what seems intuitive to so many doesn’t mean that programs will…
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Parole And Probation Totals Plummet Along With Incarcerations
Highlights Total incarcerations of people on parole and probation have decreased (see conclusions). Are we taking greater chances with decreases in the incarceration of violent…
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Police Strategies Reduce Crime-New Study
Observations A podcast of this article is available on YouTube. This may be considered “the” definitive study of policing tactics as I update this article…
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