Leonard Sipes
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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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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