Reporting Error In Oakland Likely Inflated US Violent Crime Rate in 2023
In 2023, the FBI recorded 203,749 violent crimes in California, marking a 3.8% increase from the 196,252 incidents in 2022. The Oakland...
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Sep 302 min read
New Real-Time Crime Index Helps Fill Gap Left By Old FBI Data
Last week's FBI compilation showing that violent crime reports went down about 3 percent last year doesn't mean that crime isn’t rising...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 252 min read
Murder Numbers Fell At Record-Breaking Pace In 2023
The FBI released its annual Crime in the United States estimates for 2023 this week showing an 11.6 percent decline in murder, a 3...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 232 min read
Violent Crime Reports Down 3% Last Year, FBI Says
Violent crime reports in the U.S. dropped an estimated 3% in 2023, according to FBI data that show a continued trend downward after a...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 141 min read
Federal Leadership Needed To Improve Crime Data, Experts Say
Federal officials should act to provide more timely, accurate data on crime trends, two leading experts told a national conference on...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 262 min read
Expansion Of Real-Time Crime Index Backed By Arnold Ventures
During Louisiana’s gubernatorial election, voters repeatedly ranked crime as their number-one concern in polls, and the top candidates...
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By Ted Gest
Oct 16, 20232 min read
National Murder Decline Tops A 2022 Drop In Violent Offenses: FBI
Reported violent crime in the U.S. dropped 1.7% last year, topped by a 6.1% decrease in murder and non-negligent manslaughter, the FBI...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 29, 20232 min read
Experts Predict Future Decline of Violent Crimes
In the latest HFG Report, Forecasting US Crime Rates and the Impact of Reductions in Imprisonment: 1960–2025, James Austin and Richard...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 28, 20231 min read
Justice Department Marks 50 Years Of Crime Victimization Survey
As the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) celebrates its 50th anniversary, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, the number...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 26, 20232 min read
Encouraging Trend: 12% Decline In Big-City Homicides This Year
With summer now over, urban homicide numbers for 2023 remain encouraging. Ohio State University law Prof. Douglas Berman has been...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 14, 20232 min read
Crime Victimization Rises After Reaching 30-Year Low In Pandemic
The rate of nonfatal violent victimization in the U.S. rose to 23.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older last year, after...
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By Ted Gest
Sep 13, 20232 min read
How The Nation's Criminal Justice 'Footprint' Is Getting Smaller
"The footprint of the criminal justice system is shrinking," says Adam Gelb of the think tank Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ). CCJ has...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 5, 20232 min read
Emphasis On Chicago Murder Count Doesn't Tell The Whole Data Story
Commentators and politicians often compare crime in cities and states to one another. When it comes to Chicago, the national narrative...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 15, 20231 min read
Violent Crime Reports In Major U.S. Cities Fell In 2023's First Six Months
Reports to police in all four major categories of violent crime declined in the first half of 2023 compared with the similar period last...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 26, 20232 min read
Kentucky Data Exaggerated Decline in Homicides
Crime reduction data produced by the Kentucky State Police, and celebrated by Gov. Andy Beshear at a news conference, exaggerated the...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 20, 20232 min read
Mid-Year Snapshot Shows Homicide, Most Other Crimes Down in 2023
In the latest update of what has become the broadest real-time tally of U.S. crime trends, the Council on Criminal Justice issued its...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 19, 20232 min read
After 2021 Crime-Stats Debacle, Things Are Looking Up
Last year's switch to the system aimed at improving FBI tracking of crime statistics, the National Incident-Based Reporting System...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 13, 20232 min read
One-Fourth Of Population Missing From FBI Crime Data Last Year
For more than 100 years, the FBI has been collecting crime data from local police departments through the Uniform Crime Reporting...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 20, 20232 min read
DeSantis Claims About Florida’s Crime Rely On Incomplete Data
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his bid for the presidency on Twitter Spaces last month, he touted Florida’s low crime rate as a...
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Crime and Justice News
May 16, 20231 min read
Major City Violent Crime Reports Down In 2023's First Quarter
Violent crime reports in all major categories declined in the first three months of 2023 in 70 cities surveyed by the Major Cities Chiefs...
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