The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/crime-statistics/)
Analysis of various data sets by PoliceOne.com said Orleans Parish’s homicide rate was 43 per 100,000, far above places like Chicago, with led the nation in the total number of homicides.
A free data tool launched by Measures for Justice (MFJ) is aimed at providing policymakers, practitioners and journalists with a county-level view at how criminal cases are handled from arrest to post-conviction.
A free data portal to be launched next week will provide the first–ever window into how justice is done (or not done) at the county level. Founder Amy Bach tells TCR how it can be used by anyone who intersects with the criminal justice system, from prosecutors and journalists to ordinary Americans.
Federal highway data shows more than 7,000 deaths resulting from police vehicle pursuits between 1996 and 2015. A Bureau of Justice Statistics analysis shows that fatalities peaked in 2006 and 2007, but USA Today has reported that the data likely understate the death toll because some police reports don’t disclose chases.
It was the 15th consecutive year in which the number of condemned inmates in state and federal prisons had declined, according to a new statistical brief by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics.
The Pew Research Center finds that only about half of the violent crimes and a third of the property crimes that occur each year are reported to police. Most crimes reported don’t result in the arrest, charging and prosecution of a suspect.
Why do the president and his new attorney general keep repeating statements about crime that are plainly false? They want to make the country feel less safe so Trump can sell some of his policies, such as the border wall and Muslim ban, according to one crime expert.
President Trump yesterday ordered an evaluation of the “availability and adequacy of crime-related data,” and ways to improve data collection that “will aid in the understanding of crime trends and in the reduction of crime.” Better data would be a welcome development, says crime statistics analyst Jeff Asher.
Mayor Jim Kenney called President Trump a purveyor of “fake facts” when Trump said murders in Philadelphia were “terribly increasing.” In fact, the city had 277 homicides last year compared with 280 the year before, and the total used to be much higher. The President also falsely stated that two people were murdered while then-President Obama gave his farewell speech in Chicago.
FBI report says violent crimes reported to local police rose in the first half of last year in every category of violent crime. Violent incidents are up the most in cities with populations of more than 1 million. Property crime dropped slightly but motor vehicle thefts rose 6.6 percent.