A new study analyzing 911 calls, summonses and other city data revealed that the areas surrounding New York City’s two…
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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.
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.
Two police chiefs in Mobile and Birmingham, Alabama have spoken out to dispute a recent report by MoneyGeek that ranked the cities second and third on a list of the most dangerous cities in the country in 2023.
In total, 75,846 fugitives, 28,324 on federal and 47,522 on state and local warrants, were arrested in Fiscal Year 2022.
A Bureau of Justice Statistics study found that federal law enforcement agencies made 35 percent fewer arrests from 2020 to 2021, hitting the lowest level over the past two decades.
About two-thirds of law enforcement agencies reported hate crime data in 2021, down from 93 percent participation in 2020.
The announcement follows a Marshall Project-Cleveland investigation that discovered that 60 percent or more of drivers cited for traffic violations in the Ohio village of Bratenahl since 2020 were Black.
Since 2016, the state’s overall crime rate has fallen over 12.6 percent and the prison population dropped about 21.1 percent thanks, in part, to criminal justice reforms. However, it’s still higher than national average.
A new system of reporting crime, unveiled by the FBI last week, contained embarrassing gaps in the data that will complicate the nation’s political debate. Here’s how it could have been avoided, according to Prof. Richard Rosenfeld, one of the nation’s leading criminologists.