Crime Statistics
Who’s Watching the Nation’s Crime Data?
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The nation’s top police chiefs recently decided to stop distributing semi-annual data about violent crimes. That’s a worrying mistake, says a leading criminologist.
Crime Statistics
FBI Reports Biggest Semiannual Violent Crime Drop in 4 Years
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Both violent crime and property crime dropped in the first six months of 2018 from the same period in 2017, with the best improvement in both categories since at least 2014-15, preliminary FBI figures show.
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Flip Side of NY Homicide Stats: Clearance-Rate Disparities
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New York City has enjoyed an historic drop in homicides, but when it comes to solving the ones that do occur, NYPD’s failure rate is much higher in poorer neighborhoods involving victims of color.
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LA Officials Tout Broad Declines in Crime, Especially Homicide
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Los Angeles homicides dropped more than 8 percent last year and hit their second-lowest point in 50 years, figures touted by city officials eager to tout their violence-reduction strategies and to counter the notion that incarceration reform is fueling crime.
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Federal Courts Getting Tougher on Sex Offenders: Report
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The number of sex offenders convicted in the federal criminal justice system nearly doubled between 2010 and 2016, and sex offenders were more frequently convicted of an offense carrying a mandatory minimum penalty during that period, according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Crime Trends
Incarceration Data Reveals ‘Sharp Urban-Rural Divide’ Across US
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Sharp disparities between the imprisonment rates of urban and rural Americans illustrate the “new dynamics of mass incarceration” in the U.S., the Vera Institute of Justice said Friday.
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FBI Issues Incident-Based Crime Reporting Data
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The Federal Bureau Investigation released data on more than 6 million criminal offenses submitted to its National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) last year. With more-detailed data collection, NIBRS is scheduled to become the national standard for crime reporting in 2021.
Crime Statistics
Average Time Spent in State Prison is 2.6 Years: BJS
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In a study of prisoners released in 2016, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that more than seven in 10 violent offenders spend less than five years in state prisons, and prisoners served an average of 46 percent of their maximum sentence length.
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Messy Data Muddle Picture of Hate Crime Increase
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Thanks to giant gaps in police data, the FBI’s new report showing a big jump in hate crimes is probably a better gauge of increased but still vastly undercounted crime reports than of an actual increase in the crimes.
60% of Hate Crimes are Racially Motivated: FBI
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The majority of hate crime victims last year were targeted because of the offenders’ race, ethnicity, and/or ancestry bias, according to an FBI report released Tuesday