The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/crime-statistics/)
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.
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?