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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Violent crime against young adult males has increased, but there has been no “statistically significant change” in the overall number of Americans who experienced violent crime, according to the most recent estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).
Some police agencies report no data for the FBI’s annual report of reported U.S. crime. Should the agency report margins of error?
The number of U.S. residents who had some form of encounter with police dropped from 26 percent in 2011 to 21 percent in 2015, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics study. But criminologist Rick Rosenfeld says the data doesn’t necessarily support the so-called “Ferguson Effect” theory that police are withdrawing services in response to anti-cop protests.
There were 342 homicides in Baltimore last year, 56 per 100,000 residents. That’s the highest rate of any U.S. city with more than 500,000 people. Detroit was next, with 40 homicides per 100,000 people, followed by Memphis. Chicago, Philadelphia and Milwaukee.
Murders also dropped slightly from 2016. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has spoken frequently about reports of rising crime numbers and has warned that the crime decline had “ominously reversed,” said that the crime decline indicated in the FBI report “is something that we all should celebrate.”