Leonard Sipes
There are multiple articles stating that Americans have no justifications for their concerns about crime. Are Americans clueless or silly or misinformed? Or are their concerns justified?
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Compromise is necessary considering that most Americans are in the middle politically. Without Independents, without consensus, there is no progress.
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Like crime, most Americans don’t feel safer which is why the topic is a leading concern of voters. What does the data say? Do we need to expand our understanding of crime?
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There have been 37 billion dollars in cybercrime losses since 2019. These crimes cost Americans far more financially and emotionally than street crimes or burglaries-larcenies.
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The FBI just released a preliminary full-year crime report for 2023 in record time. Throughout decades of FBI crime data, the release of full-year data has never happened this early.
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The President and others insist that violent crime has decreased considerably. Yet data, citizens, and recent media reports say the opposite. Who’s right?
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The latest report from the FBI shows arrests by age. Juvenile arrests are astoundingly high. The number of juveniles killing other juveniles was the highest it’s been in more than two decades.
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Data for the most prominent months for violent and property crimes are available. Times that most crimes occur are also offered.
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Are we at the point when writing factually about crime becomes impossible? This is the first of a three-part series on the use of crime statistics and research.
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Biden firmly states that crime went down considerably in 2022 based on the most recent yearly crime reports. He suggests that crime went down in cities. Is he correct?
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We’ve been looking at data from the FBI for 2022 (the latest yearly numbers) examining an array of crime topics. The final three include arrests by race, age, and sex.
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This article is based on the number of crime victims regardless of how many times they were victimized (repeat victimization). If a woman is violently victimized by her husband five times, it’s not one victim but five separate victimizations.
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If you’re interested in yearly national “reported” crime data from the FBI, and how it’s produced, and what affects the numbers, this article is for you.
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It’s safe to say, based on polling data, that the great majority of the 54 million yearly police-citizen contacts, interactions were mostly positive which almost seems almost impossible considering the nature of the job.
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We may want to rethink our traditional assessment of older individuals as being safe from violent and property crimes. Those in the 50-65 and above groups have disturbingly high numbers.
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