Key Takeaways
This study updates and supplements previous U.S. crime trends reports by the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) with data through December 2024. It examines yearly and monthly rates of reported crime for 13 violent, property, and drug offenses in 40 American cities that have consistently reported monthly data over the past six years. The 40 cities are not necessarily representative of all jurisdictions in the United States. Not all cities published data for each offense (see the Appendix for which cities reported which offenses); trends in offenses with fewer reporting cities should be viewed with caution. Not all crimes are reported to law enforcement. In addition, the data collected for this report are subject to revision by local jurisdictions.
Reported levels of 12 of the 13 offenses covered in this report were lower in 2024 than in 2023; shoplifting was the only offense higher in 2024 compared to 2023.
— Read on counciloncj.org/crime-trends-in-u-s-cities-year-end-2024-update/
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Catalog of Core Child Welfare Case Management Reports for Courts
This resource provides descriptions and general specifications of more than 40 Case Management Summary Reports, Case Listings, and Quality Assurance Reports, with special attention to their role in a court’s continuous quality improvement efforts for child welfare cases.
— Read on www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/catalog-core-child-welfare-case-management-reports-courts
RIPA Board Report 2025
The Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board (Board), supported by CRES and OGC, released its eighth annual report on January 1, 2025. The 2025 report contains an analysis of more than 4.7 million police and pedestrian stops conducted in 2023 under the Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA). The report focuses on the policing of youth and examines available research that illustrates police stops and their associated actions have harmful repercussions for youth that reverberate beyond the initial stop itself. Studies show that direct contact with law enforcement is associated with poor educational outcomes, including reduced test scores and lower grade point averages, in addition to other downstream effects like disparities in the criminal legal system as well as in health and economic wellbeing.
— Read on oag.ca.gov/ab953/board/reports
NRF | The Impact of Retail Theft & Violence 2024
Retailers reported a 93% increase in the average number of shoplifting incidents per year in 2023 versus 2019 and a 90% increase in dollar loss due to shoplifting over the same time period. Conducted in partnership with the Loss Prevention Research Council and sponsored by Sensormatic Solutions, “The Impact of Retail Theft & Violence 2024” examines how theft and violence have evolved since before COVID and how retailers are combating today’s retail crime landscape.
The survey was conducted online among senior loss prevention and security executives in the retail industry June 10 through July 12. The study contains results from mid-size to large retailers across 164 retail brands, which accounted for $1.52 trillion in annual sales in 2023 or 30% of total retail sales. The brands represent a variety of retail sectors including specialty and luxury retail, home improvement, mass merchandise, grocery and pharmacy.
— Read on nrf.com/research/the-impact-of-retail-theft-violence-2024
What Happened after California Changed the Rules Related to Police Use of Deadly Force? – Public Policy Institute of California
Five years ago, state lawmakers limited the legal justifications for police officers’ use of deadly force. We examine recent trends in the number of people seriously injured or killed during police encounters as well as in the provision of timely medical care for those injured.
— Read on www.ppic.org/blog/what-happened-after-california-changed-the-rules-related-to-police-use-of-deadly-force/
NJ Office of the State Comptroller – Use and Abuse of Officer Discretion in Declining to Enforce Motor Vehicle Violations
New Jersey Office of the State Comptroller
— Read on www.nj.gov/comptroller/reports/2024/approved/20241218.shtml
Winnable criminal justice reforms in 2025 | Prison Policy Initiative
34 high-impact policy ideas for state legislators and advocates looking to reform their criminal legal system without making it bigger.
— Read on www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/winnable2025.html
Illinois law requires transparency when police kill people. Many cases stay in the dark – IPM Newsroom
Illinois promised answers after fatal officer-involved shootings and other deaths at the hands of law enforcement. But some prosecutors stay silent.
— Read on ipmnewsroom.org/illinois-law-requires-transparency-police-killings/
US police use force on 300,000 people a year, with numbers rising since George Floyd | The Guardian
Police in the US use force on at least 300,000 people each year, injuring an estimated 100,000 of them, according to a groundbreaking data analysis on law enforcement encounters.
Mapping Police Violence, a non-profit research group that tracks killings by US police, launched a new database, policedata.org, on Wednesday cataloging non-fatal incidents of police use of force, including stun guns, chemical sprays, K9 dog attacks, neck restraints, beanbags and baton strikes.
— Read on amp.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/28/police-use-of-force-violence-data-analysis
Police Data – A Database on Police Use of Force
The largest police use of force database in America. Built by the Mapping Police Violence organization. Get the facts. Make the case for change.
— Read on policedata.org/
Future of Policing 