Highlights 2020 ended with a total of 39.7 million background checks, the highest annual count recorded. Why? "Government fell on its face in 2020 and left many Americans to arm ...
Highlights The bedrock of today’s violence could be the shock of the pandemic plus relaxed or disappearing enforcement. The increase in homicides, aggravated assaults, carjackings and other forms of violence ...
Highlights Via a leaked audio, Joe Biden appeared to blame the "defund the police" movement for contributing to surprising Democratic losses last month. "That's how they beat the living hell ...
Highlights Does Mr. Biden have any police or crime control options that will not cost him politically? To rebuild high poverty areas and to create good-paying jobs, violence needs to ...
Highlights Obama-Cool it with the “defund the police” slogan. Gallup-The majority of those polled believe that "tough on crime" issues should guide public policy. Marshall Project-Political groups are trying to ...
Highlights Most of what I read about crime is advocacy. When it comes to objectivity, there are an endless variety of crime-related organizations offering data that only fits their preconceived ...
Highlights Americans are more likely to perceive crime in the U.S. as having increased than they have since 1993. Fifty-one percent say that the issue of crime in the U.S. ...
Highlights It's clear that crime and cops figure heavily when it comes to national and state elections. The movement awakened the cultural conservative in a lot of voters. “The left ...
Highlights The cost of crime could increase to $2.1 trillion—or nearly 10 percent of the Gross National Product (GDP). The explosion of violence in a wide variety of cities (many ...
Just to put all of this rioting, looting, assaults and worse upon cities and our officers in perspective, as a forensic criminologist who deals with officer-involved and civilian shooting stats ...