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The NYU Brennan Center for Justice reports an 8 percent decline in murder rates in America’s 30 largest cities, in a final estimate of 2018 crime figures that contradict assertions of a “crime wave.”
For the third year in a row, Missouri has the nation’s highest black homicide victimization rate, with a rate of 46.21 per 100,000, more than twice the national rate and nine times the national rate for overall homicide, says the Violence Policy Center.
After earning hundreds of thousands of dollars by moonlighting as a crime-data consultant, the LAPD veteran who pushed his department to the forefront of controversial data-driven crime-fighting tools is leaving to pursue his consulting career.
The decline parallels the drop in state and federal prison populations between 2007 and 2017, according to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics. But about two-thirds of those confined to jail cells in 2017—roughly 425,000 people—hadn’t been convicted of any crime.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.