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An analysis by The Markup has found that crime predictions generated for the police department in Plainfield, New Jersey, rarely…
Despite a dip in the overall rate of violent crime across the United States, violent crime rates still remain higher than they were pre-pandemic, with a marked increase in car thefts.
Florida’s claim of achieving a 50-year crime low is being called into question due to a significant data gap in…
The Department of Justice’s prosecution of white-collar crime has been dropping steadily for the past decade. Just as it did in 2021, another analysis of DOJ data shows that 2022 had the lowest rates of white-collar crime prosecution since tracking started two decades ago.
National crime data is a mess, and last year already-inconsistent agency participation in FBI crime data collection fell by 22 percent. Now, the Council on Criminal Justice is launching a Crime Trends Working Group to try and improve national data reporting and analysis.
Police Chief Paul Noel credits the department’s restructuring with the fall-off in most crimes in 2022.
In New Jersey, lawmakers have approved a number of bills intended to crack down on auto theft. The measures include an upgrade of auto theft to a second-degree crime and legislation increasing penalties for carjacking and auto theft.
The nature of American crime has changed dramatically in the last several decades, and it’s not what either the Left or the Right would have you believe, write two John Jay professors.
In 2020, gun violence killed 5,003 Hispanic Americans, a record number that averages to 13 people per day.