The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/crime-statistics/)
A website used FBI crime statistics to rank states based on their per capita rates of violence. Crime is down generally, but in some states, the rates of reported violent crime approximate those of the early 1990s.
It’s too soon to draw a conclusion about 2019 crime trends, but so far, Chicago is reporting a major crime decrease while murders are up in Baltimore and Philadelphia.
Republicans have criticized South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg over crime, but a supposed crime rise was due mostly to a change in how the city counted assaults.
Bureau of Justice Statistics reports the number of youths in the nation’s juvenile correctional facilities who reported being sexually victimized has decreased.
The report presents data about victims, known offenders, and relationships for offenses reported in 52 categories.The FBI plans to convert its historic Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program to the National Incident-Based Reporting System in 2021 to provide more complete information about crime incidents.
A new Vera Institute report analyzes the jail building boom in rural and suburban areas in America, which has had many negative consequences and is an increase in contrast to urban trends.
Federal criminal justice data has never gotten enough funding or attention, a Prison Policy Initiative researcher writes. But over the past two years, delays in critically needed reports have gone from bad to worse.
Researchers are surprised by the downward misdemeanor trend, which pushes against assumptions about over-policing in urban areas. Some say the falling arrest rates signal a fundamental shift in crime prevention.
After two mayoral challengers claimed Houston is suffering a surge in violence and other crime not reflected in “dry crime statistics,” a newspaper collected the authoritative statistics that show how the city’s crime has trended and where it finds itself relative to other big cities.
The general trend of violent crimes has been steadily declining since the 1990s, but that crime rate appears to have reversed in recent years, based on findings released from Bureau of Justice Statistics.