The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/crime-statistics/)
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.
During the first 10 months of fiscal year 2019, the government reported that 204 terrorism-related prosecutions had been filed, says the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. Of these, 71 were for acts of domestic terrorism, compared to 34 for international terror cases.
The number of people killed when someone plowed through a light reached 939 in 2017, the last full year numbers were available, according to the study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. That was up 31 percent from a low of 715 in 2009.
The New York Police Department has taken DNA samples from people convicted of crimes, as well as from people only arrested or questioned. The practice has exposed the Police Department to scrutiny over how the genetic material is collected and whether privacy rights are being violated.
Only 2016 had more mass killing deaths this far into the year, finds an analysis by USA Today, the Associated Press and Northeastern University.
The president is correct about Afghanistan, says the Baltimore Sun. The city’s homicide rate is actually seven times higher than Afghanistan’s, but that figure does not include the tens of thousands of deaths from the war in that country.
The study by the U.S. Sentencing Commission found that 68.1 percent of firearms offenders were rearrested for a new crime, versus 46.3 percent for non-firearms offenders.
The NYU Brennan Center for Justice reports an 8 percent decline in murder rates in America’s 30 largest cities, in a final estimate of 2018 crime figures that contradict assertions of a “crime wave.”