Tag: Statistics

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/

Is Crime Underreporting Getting Worse? – by Jeff Asher

One of the common responses to my piece from last week on the widespread — albeit preliminary — reported decline in murder and crime could be summarized in the below comment from Twitter: “How accurate can recent burglary/larceny crime stats be when we know they’re not being recorded in many locations where such theft won’t be prosecuted? I imagine the same goes for some other stats here.”
— Read on jasher.substack.com/p/is-crime-underreporting-getting-worse

Race & Policing | NAACP Bucks County

New Report Reveals Significant Racial Disparities in Bucks County Policing. The NAACP Bucks County 2023 Report on Reimagining Public Safety reveals racial disparities in enforcement as well as significant shortcomings in existing departmental policies. The report includes key findings and recommendations for improving the transparency and accountability of municipal policing in Bucks County.
— Read on www.naacpbucks.org/policing

Michigan State Police – 4 unique reports

Michigan State Police Traffic Enforcement: An Assessment of Policies, Training, and Operations

Exploring Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Michigan State Police Traffic Stops Using the Veil of Darkness Methodology (2021 Data)

Michigan State Police Traffic Stop External Benchmarking: A Final Report on Racial and Ethnic Disparities (2020 Data)

Traffic Stop Data: 2017-2019

— Read on www.michigan.gov/msp/public-information/transparency/accordion/reports/traffic-stop-data-main

Adults With Mental Illness Are Overrepresented in Probation Population | The Pew Charitable Trusts

Adults on probation—supervision imposed by the court generally in lieu of incarceration—are more than twice as likely to have a serious or moderate mental illness as those in the general public, according to analysis of federal data from 2015 to 2019 by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
— Read on www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2024/01/adults-with-mental-illness-are-overrepresented-in-probation-population

See a .PDF version of the report HERE

Wrongful Convictions The Literature, the Issues, and the Unheard Voices | Office of Justice Programs

The report contains three chapters: Chapter 1 reviews 100 years of scholarship on wrongful convictions, ranging from early case studies of exonerations to more recent scientific analyses of wrongful convictions. The review finds that knowledge about the prevalence and causes of these serious miscarriages of justice remains limited and mixed at best. Chapter 2 focuses on several “elephants in the courtroom” that have not garnered significant attention among wrongful conviction scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and activists. This section examines the deep linkages between race, society, the administration of justice, and wrongful convictions. Chapter 3 discusses the major themes that emerged during the listening sessions in an effort to better understand the problems victims and those who have been exonerated face during the review of post-conviction innocence claims and after the exoneration. The report concludes with policy recommendations to help address the most pressing issues. 
— Read on www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/wrongful-convictions-literature-issues-and-unheard-voices

Taser And Social, Ethnic and Racial Disparities research programme

News report

Key findings from the research suggest:

  • There is a statistical relationship between ethnicity and increased use of Taser relative to other uses of force in some areas. This is mediated by other factors such as mental ill health, but police routine data collection needs to improve to properly understand these patterns;
  • The disproportionate use of Taser across different communities and populations stems from complex interactions between multiple factors, structures, and processes, both within and external to policing;
  • Policing takes place within a society fractured by inequality and structural racism in that Black and other ethnic minority populations are more likely than White people to live in areas of deprivation;
  • A combination of institutional priorities, policies, practices, and demands mean that policing is concentrated into areas of deprivation, which in turn disproportionately impacts on people from Black and ethnic minority backgrounds relative to the White population;
  • Given that police are more active in deprived neighbourhoods, this in turn makes Taser use in those areas more likely;
  • Taser has become institutionalised as an organisational level response to perceived threat and risk, which increases its use in situations that previously have been resolved in other ways, such as through dialogue;
  • Police officers count Taser among the least dangerous use of force options available to them, and risks associated with its use are under emphasised during training. Insufficient time is dedicated to discussions of ethnic disproportionality and de-escalation during Taser training, which risks creating a further push towards the use of the weapon;
  • In contrast, affected communities experience Taser as a dehumanising and potentially lethal weapon. They also emphasised the psychological harms and racialised traumas generated through use of the weapon;
  • Public scrutiny mechanisms designed to hold police officers to account lack adequate support.

See the report here:

www.ucl.ac.uk/security-crime-science/sites/security_crime_science/files/taserd_report_13_dec_2023.pdf