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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- 5 days ago
- 1 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 1 min
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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Crime and Justice News
- Apr 14
- 2 min
Comparing NYC Crime With Jim Jordan's Biggest City: It's A Close Call
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-.Oh.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is going to Manhattan on Monday to lead a hearing that will focus on...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 22
- 2 min
Studies: In MacArthur Cities, Less Jail Didn't Fuel More Crime
A privately funded program working to reduce local jail populations in dozens of cities and counties nationwide commissioned a pair of...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 7
- 2 min
FBI Not Making Quarterly Crime Estimates, As Big Cities Don't Report
In 2020, the FBI provided quarterly crime estimates about 3 months after the previous quarter had ended. The quarterly crime estimates...
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By Ted Gest
- Mar 6
- 2 min
For The First Time, BJS Issues Victimization Estimates By State
For the first time, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics released "subnational" violent and property crime victimization estimates from...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 15
- 2 min
Biden Gets Incomplete Grade on Covid-Crime Claim
When President Biden said in his Feb. 7 State of the Union speech that "covid left its scars, like the spike in violent crime in 2020,"...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 28, 2022
- 2 min
Washington Post: Congress Should Help, Pressure Stats On Crime Data
The FBI released what seemed to be good news this month, that the agency counted 7,262 instances of hate crimes in 2021 — a drop from...
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By Ted Gest
- Nov 21, 2022
- 2 min
Another Plea To Fix Gaps In U.S. Crime Statistics
After many years of work by many levels of federal and state government to correct flaws in the compilation of key crime and justice data...
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