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Criminologists and criminal justice activists analyzing the nearly 50 percent increase in mass shootings in 2020 are debating whether vaccinations and reopening schools and businesses will be enough to reverse this alarming trend.
There are more people serving life sentences in the U.S today than the total prison population of the 1970s, and five times more than in 1984, according to the latest report from The Sentencing Project.
According to the latest FBI data, more than 200 hate crimes were reported across North Carolina in 2019—a 48 percent increase.
Politically biased leadership during Donald Trump’s presidency, along with decades of poor funding, contributed to delays in report releases and an atmosphere of censorship, say former employees of the nation’s top crime statistics agency.
Based on FBI figures from 2018, the last year for which data are available, African Americans comprised 33 per cent of those arrested for nonviolent offenses and 36 percent of those arrested for “serious” nonfatal crimes involving violence—although they represent 13 percent of the U.S. population, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Just under 8 percent of Americans say property crime is a big problem where they live, but about 74 percent say it’s at least something of a worry, according to a survey.
While the FBI reported in September that murder was up almost 15 percent based on data from agencies that reported three to six months of comparable figures for both 2019 and 2020, the antiquated national crime data collection and reporting system makes it hard to confidently say what is causing the spike or what can be done about it, write two commentators in USA Today.
The National Sheriffs’ Association and the American Society of Criminology are worried about an FBI plan that is expected to stop thousands of local police agencies from contributing data on murders, rapes, assaults on police officers and other crimes to the Uniform Crime Report.
In a first-of-its-kind analysis of Texas arrest and conviction records, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that crime rates among undocumented immigrants “are just a fraction of those of their U.S.-born neighbors.”
FBI data show hate crime incidents increased 2.7 percent last year, following a UN report released last month noting an increase in racist incidents targeting Asian Americans during the pandemic — which the UN traces to President Donald Trump’s rhetoric about the “China Flu.”