Crime Known to Law Enforcement, 2023

Description

This report details rates of violent and property crime in the United States based on offenses reported by law enforcement agencies from 2022 to 2023. It presents national and subnational estimates of crime offenses and victimizations for violent and property crime. Findings are based on BJS’s and the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) Estimation Program. NIBRS collects detailed information on crime incidents reported to law enforcement throughout the United States. 

Highlights

  • The rate of violent offenses in the United States decreased from 407.3 per 100,000 persons in 2022 to 387.8 per 100,000 in 2023.
  • The rate of property offenses decreased 3% from 2,085.6 per 100,000 persons in 2022 to 2,015.2 per 100,000 in 2023.
  • The rate of violent victimization in 2023 was 395.2 per 100,000 persons, which was not statistically different from the rate in 2022.
  • Males and females both had decreases in the rate of homicide victimization from 2022 to 2023.

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Metropolitan Nashville (TN) Police Department’s Professional Wellness Section

The Collaborative Reform Initiative: Technical Assistance Center (CRI-TAC) Spotlight series is committed to advancing knowledge through sharing tools, resources, and information developed for the law enforcement field as a result of customized training and technical assistance delivered by CRI-TAC. This publication provides guidance to the law enforcement field on the purpose, structure, and goals of law enforcement wellness checks and the different types of wellness checks agencies can establish.

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Adopting a Systems Approach to Police Staffing

This publication illustrates elements of the police staffing challenge and explores how they form a broader ecosystem that agencies should consider when assessing staffing issues, contemplating goals and strategies, and implementing solutions. It presents a six-step approach for police workforce planning and managing workload demand and addresses planning for three common staffing scenarios.

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Testimony Before the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight

 Rafael A. Mangual testified in a hearing titled An Overview of the Problem and Policy Solutions. Watch the full testimony here. Chairman Van Drew, Ranking Member Crockett, and all other members of this distinguished body: Thank you for the opportunity to offer remarks on the all-important topic of public safety in America’s cities—an issue I have spent the […]
— Read on manhattan.institute/article/testimony-before-the-u-s-house-judiciary-subcommittee-on-oversight

Reckoning With Bivens | Lawfare

In the wake of the Chicago South Shore raid—which reportedly saw masked U.S. agents rappelling down from a Black Hawk helicopter, bursting into a 130-unit building, kicking down doors, zip-tying and holding American citizens at gunpoint, and the detention of 37 Venezuelan nationals—a law school classmate asked me: Why isn’t every one of these raids—where officers trash property and terrorize residents—a potential Bivens case?

The answer, chilling, at least to me, is: Because my team and I spent decades at the Department of Justice making sure that such lawsuits would be dismissed, typically without trial, and often even without discovery.
— Read on www.lawfaremedia.org/article/reckoning-with-bivens