Leonard Sipes

Most in state and local justice systems find USDOJ material difficult or impossible to find, read, and comprehend. Getting answers to common crime questions is tough. This article explains why and offers solutions. Finding a trusted expert who will summarize the data and give you both sides of any issue seems to be the solution.
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There’s no national consensus as to what we want from parole and probation employees or agencies. What could possibly go wrong?
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We must decide what we want from law enforcement before we lose thousands of additional cops and endanger public safety.
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Advocates claim they want an evidence-based approach to crime yet they ignore the best available data. We are dismissing a chance to create better, safer communities. Here's the data you NEED to know.
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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 cops. Crimes solved, however, remain flat.
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The median (average) time served in state prison for all offenses is 1.3 years.
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The hard reality is that if we fully prosecuted all people charged and did not engage in plea bargains, the justice system would shut down in a week.
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Tens of thousands of police officers have left the job. The good news is that police employment figures have improved.
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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 issues remain.
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Understanding crime numbers and rates in America isn’t easy. Per FBI data, crime is down. Per the USDOJ’s National Crime Victimization Survey, violent crime increases are at record highs.
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The rate of violence against females in the US often exceeds that of males. That wasn’t the case in the past.
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There are 120 million porch package thefts in the US. Searches for “stolen package” spike every December, according to Google Trends.
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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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