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With Multiple Measures, Getting A Grip On Crime Trends Is Difficult
“President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country,” ABC News’s David Muir told Trump in...
Crime and Justice News
Sep 20, 20242 min read
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Crime Rates for Undocumented Immigrants Less Than U.S.-Born
An NIJ-funded study examining data from the Texas Department of Public Safety estimated the rate at which undocumented immigrants are...
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Sep 19, 20242 min read
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School Shootings: Tragic Yet Rare
According to a recent Gallup poll, 44% of parents are worried about their child's safety at school, a level of fear not seen since the...
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Sep 19, 20242 min read
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Real-Time Crime Index Launched
On Wednesday, crime analyst Jeff Asher launched The Real-Time Crime Index (RTCI) , which aims to presents a new way of looking at crime...
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Sep 4, 20241 min read
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Carjackings Appear To Be Falling Again In 2024
New data from the FBI points to an improving national trend in carjackings this year following an apparent sizable increase between 2019...
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Aug 27, 20242 min read
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Presidential Candidates Rely on Different Crime Data, Avoid Mention of Justice Reform
Two recent Washington Post opinion pieces parse the discussion of crime in the presidential race, which has thus far largely focused on...
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Aug 22, 20243 min read
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Is Violent Crime Being Reported Less Often?
Whether crime is going down or if changes in reported crime statistics simply reflects lower reporting patterns is a critical challenge...
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Aug 12, 20242 min read
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Editorial: We Should Invest In Better Crime Data
After a spike in both violent crime and property offenses after the pandemic-and-protest year of 2020, statistics show that crime is...
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Jul 29, 20242 min read
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To Reduce Crime, Tap Into Forces That Make Cities Vibrant
“It is not that crime must be low for a city to work, but that a city must work for crime to be low,” write John K. Roman and Elizabeth...
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Jul 19, 20242 min read
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Experts Seek Better Crime Data Should Mean Better Policymaking
Urgent action is needed to improve national data on crime, says a working group convened by the think tank Council on Criminal Justice....
By Ted Gest
Jun 25, 20243 min read
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Chicago-Based Center Starts Live Crime Tracker With New Data
NORC at the University of Chicago’s Center on Public Safety and Justice has launched a Live Crime Tracker. The center says that, "Much...
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May 30, 20241 min read
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2021 Homicide Victimization Rate 27 Times Higher For Black Teens
Among teens ages 15 to 19, the rate for Black homicide victims in 2021 was 27 times the rate for white victims, concludes a new analysis...
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May 24, 20241 min read
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Documentary Seeks to Put the 'Sexy' Into Crime Data
In the 13 years since it formed as a non-profit helping local police, courts and prosecutors to get better at capturing and reporting the...
By Mark Obbie
May 7, 20243 min read
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Why Greenwood, S.C., Is Not U.S. Murder Capital
In the FBI's Uniform Crime Report for 2022, some of the usual suspects, like New Orleans and St. Louis, rank near the top of murder rates...
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Apr 24, 20241 min read
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Small Police Agencies Need Help To Report Detailed Crime Data
The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) was started in the 1990s to add depth to the FBI's historic system of collecting...
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Mar 25, 20242 min read
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Liberty University fined $14M for Federal Crime-Reporting Violations
The U.S. Department of Education has fined Liberty University a record $14 million for violating a federal law that requires colleges to...
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Mar 6, 20241 min read
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State UCR Data For 2023 Shows Drop in Murders, Violence
Several months ahead of the federal release of Uniform Crime Report data, crime analyst Jeff Asher took a look at newly released UCR data...
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Mar 6, 20241 min read
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Incomplete FBI Data Gives 'Distorted' Picture of Crime Trends
Crime-trend reports based on FBI data are often distorted by the erratic reporting from local law enforcement agencies’ who don’t – or...
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Oct 27, 20231 min read
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