Leonard Sipes
In 2023, the rate of nonfatal firearm violence was 2.0 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older, down 72% from 7.3 per 1,000 in 1993.
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Democratic strategist James Carville said that “defund the police” were “the three stupidest words in the English language.”
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“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong.”
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A world review of citizen perceptions of safety. The United States and Canada (and Sub-Saharan Africa) are the only regions of the world where perceptions of safety decreased because of crime. For the US and Canada, it declined from 76 percent in 2006 to 72 percent in 2023.
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A recent study demonstrates that the risk of firearm-related death or injury is more acute for young black and Latino men who live in certain zip codes than for U.S. soldiers who were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Why are so many professionals leaving law enforcement, corrections, and youth services? Compared to the general population, law enforcement officers face a 54 percent higher risk of dying by their own hands.
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The overwhelming majority of Americans expressed satisfaction with their contacts with American law enforcement and most indicated a willingness to engage them again.
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The FBI released six months of reported crime data for 2024. But that data must be treated cautiously.
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If risk assessments of criminal offenders consistently show signs of bias, what does that mean for criminal justice reform?
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Are law enforcement staffing levels affecting reported crime? Are there additional reasons for reduced reported crime via the FBI?
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We are addressing well over 40 million criminal victimizations yearly. Victimization may exceed half the population when you combine violent and property crime with identity theft and cybercrime.
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Trump was RIGHT! Our team did a deep dive into buried data and proved him right, destroying “fact checkers” and ABC about the rise in violent crime. The real data shows the US experienced the largest increase in violent crime in the nation’s history in 2022.... and it's CONTINUING.
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Americans say a low crime rate (68%), low housing and living costs (66%), and good weather (62%) make a place desirable to live.
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Crime was the second most important local news topic (weather was first). The vast majority of news consumers were not satisfied with the coverage of crime.
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Is US crime really declining or is it a lack of reporting? Are we denying the reality of US crime? Are we dismissing the preponderance of evidence of crime increases from multiple sources?
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