Facing community pressure, some progressive black leaders are reevaluating their soft-on-crime positions.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/second-thoughts-in-new-york
Tag: Statistics
The People’s Report 2024: Driving While BIPOC
Juvenile Court Statistics 2021
Juvenile Court Statistics 2021 draws on data from the National Juvenile Court Data Archive (Archive) to profile 437,300 delinquency cases and 51,500 petitioned status offense cases handled in 2021 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction. The report also tracks trends in delinquency and petitioned status cases between 2005 and 2021. The data used in this report were contributed to the Archive by nearly 2,400 courts with jurisdiction over 83% of the juvenile population in 2021.
— Read on www.ncjj.org/Publication/Juvenile-Court-Statistics-2021.aspx
Vital City | New York’s Iron Pipeline Problem
Crime trends are deeply linked to out-of-state gun purchases.
— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/new-yorks-iron-pipeline-problem
POLICE STAFFING, EXPENDITURES, AND WORKLOAD: STAFFING REDUCTIONS HAVE IMPACTED RESPONSE TIMES AND LED TO HIGH OVERTIME COSTS
See 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/
The 311 on NYC’s longer-than-ever 911s?
Wait times for police calls in New York City have never ben longer.
— Read on nypost.com/2024/02/10/opinion/the-311-on-nycs-longer-than-ever-911s/
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
Future of Policing 