Tag: Statistics

Crime Is Down in 2025. Trump Doesn’t Deserve Credit. | Vera Institute

For the past year, Donald Trump has been saying that “homicides are skyrocketing” and the country is “breaking down” with violence even as the data told a much different story. Now, as crime keeps declining, even Trump is finally changing his tune. Data and analysis from the FBI, Council on Criminal Justice, and Major Cities Chiefs Association all show that, overall, crime went down significantly in 2024, with violent crime largely returning to pre-pandemic levels. The good news defies expectations: homicide rates in Baltimore, Detroit, and St. Louis declined even beyond pre-pandemic levels to historically low 2014 rates. Now, early data suggests that the crime drop is continuing under Trump’s second term. It is still too early in the year to talk with confidence about crime trends in 2025, but at least one researcher projects that 2025 is on track to follow 2024 in terms of continued declines in homicides and violent crime.
— Read on www.vera.org/news/crime-is-down-in-2025-trump-doesnt-deserve-credit

State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies’ Training Topics and Instructors, 2022 – Statistical Tables | Bureau of Justice Statistics

Description
This report describes the number and types of basic training curricula of state and local law enforcement training academies in the United States in 2022. Conducted periodically since 2002, the findings in the report are based primarily on BJS’s 2022 Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies (CLETA), the fifth iteration of the data collection.
— Read on bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/state-local-law-enforcement-training-academies-training-topics-instructors-2022-statistical-tables

How Is California Handling Allegations of Police Misconduct? – Public Policy Institute of California

New public data is helping to shed light on California’s current process for addressing reports of police misconduct. We take a look at what this process has yielded since its implementation two years ago.
— Read on www.ppic.org/blog/how-is-california-handling-allegations-of-police-misconduct/

Homicide Victimization in the United States, 2023 | Bureau of Justice Statistics

Highlights
In 2023:
The rate of homicide victimization was 5.9 per 100,000 persons. This marks a decrease from the rate of 6.7 per 100,000 in 2022.
The male homicide victimization rate (9.3 per 100,000 persons) was 3.5 times greater than the homicide victimization rate for females (2.6 per 100,000).
The homicide victimization rate for black persons (21.3 per 100,000 persons) was more than 6 times the rate for white persons (3.2 per 100,000).
The largest percentage of homicide victimizations (39%) was committed by someone outside the family but known to the victim.

— Read on bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/homicide-victimization-united-states-2023