Month: February 2024

Police pullback linked to increases in crime

When police pull back, crime accelerates. But policing alone is no cure-all. That’s the takeaway from a new Denver-area study co-authored by researchers at CU Boulder and collaborators in Nebraska, Michigan, and South Carolina.
— Read on phys.org/news/2024-02-police-pullback-linked-crime.html

NOTE: In the article there is a like to the Academic Article which at the time of this post was available “free access”.

America’s Traffic Laws Give Police Way Too Much Power | TIME

We’ll never know what Philando Castile was feeling when the police lights first flashed across his rearview mirror on a balmy night in the summer of 2016. But we can be reasonably certain of what he wasn’t feeling: surprise. The traffic stop—ostensibly for a broken tail light—that precipitated his tragic death, and captured the nation’s attention, was nothing out of the ordinary for Castile. It was in fact the 46th time he had been pulled over. And while this figure may seem shocking to some, there is sadly nothing aberrational about it.
— Read on time.com/6175852/pretextual-traffic-stops/

NIJ Special Report: Public Mass Shootings Research | National Institute of Justice

Abstract
Few events in American life shatter the public’s sense of well-being or shock the national conscience as much as someone repeatedly firing into a crowd. Scientific research supported by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) confirms the profound negative impact of public mass shootings on the average citizen’s sense of safety. For over two decades, NIJ has supported scientific studies that examine the public mass shooting problem from multiple angles. Since 2014, NIJ has invested in numerous research projects that study mass shootings and, specifically, public mass shootings.
— Read on nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/nij-special-report-public-mass-shootings-research

Get the report HERE

California Law Enforcement Agencies Are Spending More But Solving Fewer Crimes | Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice

A new report finds that, despite record spending on law enforcement, crime-solving is at record lows.

** I bet there is more to this than the report reveals.
— Read on www.cjcj.org/reports-publications/report/california-law-enforcement-agencies-are-spending-more-but-solving-fewer-crimes

Fears of a migrant crime wave are growing in NYC, but actual evidence is scant

Despite high-profile episodes, nothing in the data at this point suggests any broad-based or wide scale increases in crime is being driven by the arrival of tens of thousands of migrants in New York City.
— Read on www.nydailynews.com/2024/02/10/fears-of-a-migrant-crime-wave-are-growing-in-nyc-but-actual-evidence-is-scant/