Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast For the last full official report in 2023, the FBI estimates that overall property crime (i.e.,…
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Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Per an executive order, President Trump wants to “increase the investment in and collection,…
View More Will Trump Change National Crime Statistics? Are We Getting Accurate Crime Data?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Americans’ confidence in the police increased eight percentage points over the past year to 51%, the largest…
View More How Americans Rate the Police–Largest Yearly Increase
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Updated six times since publication. Considering the popularity of this article, additional sections have been added…
View More Immigrants and Crime: What the Numbers Say–And What They Don’t
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Criminal offenders gravitate to people, places, and things perceived as easier targets with successful or bigger…
View More What Groups Are Victimized the Most By Crime? Crime’s Shifting Landscape
Highlights This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. This is a national story as several states contemplate reducing sentences for violent offenders. Per…
View More Is It Possible To Safely Release Violent Prison Inmates Early?
Highlights Americans have considerable mental health and substance problems plus an inability to behave well per data. These issues have implications for police-civilian encounters. About…
View More Is Policing The Toughest Job In America?
Highlights Artificial Intelligence (AI) will soon be a significant part of the lives of people in law enforcement and the rest of the justice…
View More Artificial Intelligence: Transforming Law Enforcement And The Justice System
Highlights You, your spouse, and your children interact daily with people who have criminal histories. Acknowledging this and evaluating potentially menacing or uncomfortable situations keeps…
View More How Many People With Criminal Histories Do We Interact With Daily?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube Podcast. A guide to getting answers to crime and justice questions. Most in state and local justice…
View More How To Get Answers To Your Crime And Justice Questions
Highlights There’s no national consensus as to what we want from parole and probation employees or agencies. Parole and probation agents supervise and…
View More Parole And Probation: Dangers, Realities, and the Need for Change
Highlights We must decide what we want from law enforcement before we lose thousands of additional cops and endanger public safety. At the moment, proactive…
View More Cops And Crime Control–Does Society Know What It Wants?
Highlights “The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is the nation’s primary source of information on criminal victimization,” the US Census Bureau. No one is saying…
View More We Ignore The USDOJ’s 44 Percent Increase In Violent Crime-Why?
Highlights For the first time in many years, incarcerations and arrests, seem to be increasing with a slight expansion of police officers after losing 25,000…
View More The Distressing Status Of Arrests, Crimes Solved And Incarcerations
Highlights The median (average) time served in state prison for all offenses is 1.3 years. This article is available via a podcast on YouTube. Author…
View More The Average Time Served in State Prisons Is 1.3 Years
Highlights Most crimes involve reduced charges or dropped or deferred prosecutions. Concessions through plea-bargains, dropped charges, and limited prison sentences are seen as necessary to…
View More How Many Crimes Are Prosecuted In The United States?
Highlights Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicate the considerable loss of police officers in recent years. BLS Charts are below. Tens of…
View More The United States Lost Over 25,000 Local Police Personnel
Highlights We are on the verge of a new and better way of analyzing crime data through the FBI’s emerging National Incident-Based Reporting System. But…
View More Update-The FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System Greatly Improves
Highlights CrimeInAmerica.Net is 15 years old. I appreciate your support. A list of accomplishments is below. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Former Senior Specialist for…
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Highlights This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. Understanding crime numbers and rates in America isn’t easy. Per FBI data, crime is down.…
View More Millions Of Crimes Are Not Included In FBI Yearly Reports