Posted on 10/18/2019 8:08:46 AM PDT by george76
five facts about crime in the United States.
1. Violent crime in the U.S. has fallen sharply over the past quarter century.
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Using the FBI numbers, the violent crime rate fell 51% between 1993 and 2018. Using the BJS data, the rate fell 71% during that span.
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2. Property crime has declined significantly over the long term.
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FBI data shows that the rate fell by 54% between 1993 and 2018, while BJS reports a decline of 69% during that span.
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3. Public perceptions about crime in the U.S. often don’t align with the data. Opinion surveys regularly find that Americans believe crime is up nationally, even when the data shows it is down. In 18 of 22 Gallup surveys conducted between 1993 and 2018, at least six-in-ten Americans said there was more crime in the U.S. compared with the year before, despite the generally downward trend in national violent and property crime rates during most of that period.
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5. Most crimes are not reported to police, and most reported crimes are not solved.
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Most of the crimes that are reported to police, meanwhile, are not solved, at least based on an FBI measure known as the “clearance rate.” That’s the share of cases each year that are closed, or “cleared,” through the arrest, charging and referral of a suspect for prosecution (or through “exceptional means,” such as the death of a suspect or a victim’s refusal to cooperate with a prosecution). In 2018, police nationwide cleared 46% of violent crimes that were reported to them. For property crimes, the national clearance rate was 18%.
(Excerpt) Read more at pewresearch.org ...
People very often get robbed today and don’t bother reporting. I had my car broken into and since I know the cops don’t give a rats ....
This question should be on the citizenship test:
Black and hispanic males between the ages of 15 and 35 commit __% of reported crimes in the United States.
(Good luck finding the data, or reading about it in the mass media.)
More guns, less crime.
Another fact:
A vast majority of violent crime occurs in strongly Democrat districts. Ironically, these are the areas typically with the strictest gun control laws.
What thing do all of those cities have in common? Seems to me there's a huge elephant in the room that no one wants to see.
-—check the pie chart about halfway down—(Chicago stats but it applies in all of our urban paradises)
During that time prison populations were growing.
Now they want to shrink it and cops are backing off.
I would think that
#1 DNA has completely revolutionized violent crime and police work.
#2 Surveillance Society has been the undoing of the moron class of criminal.
There’s a bunch of theories why all violent crime has dramatically decreased in the past several decades. Have no idea if any of them are true or not.
I’ve heard:
Corresponds to the leaded gas/pipes/paints bans and replacements.
Corresponds to abortion becoming legal. The poorest populations are usually the most likely to commit violent crime, also the most likely to have abortions. Inner cities have had the highest abortion rates.
Corresponds to increase in obesity. Fat inactive people don’t commit as much violence I guess.
Corresponds to decrease in outdoor activity and increase in electronic entertainment options. Sitting at home watching TV and playing video games instead of getting bored and entertaining themselves on the street.
Freegards
Violent Crime fell in Florida FELL dramatically AFTER conceal carry was passed... More guns - less crime...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Guns,_Less_Crime
More Guns, Less Crime is a book by John Lott that says violent crime rates go down when states pass “shall issue” concealed carry laws. He presents the results of his statistical analysis of crime data for every county in the United States during 29 years from 1977 to 2005. Each edition of the book was refereed by the University of Chicago Press. The book examines city, county and state level data from the entire United States and measures the impact of 13 different types of gun control laws on crime rates. The book expands on an earlier study published in 1997 by Lott and his co-author David Mustard in The Journal of Legal Studies[1] and by Lott and his co-author John Whitley in The Journal of Law and Economics, October 2001.[2]
Excuse me, you did not mean a ELEPHANT in the room. Instead, you meant a DONKEY in the room.
I stand corrected...
20 years ago our car was stolen out of the driveway. The county cops never even came out, took a short report over the phone and I never heard from them or the car again.
They forgot number 6: Crime is still heavily concentrated in one ethnic group, both committing and receiving criminal actions.
So yes, this all goes together quite nicely. Crimes are up, and people know it, and they don't bother reporting it anymore so that's why the stats are down.
I'm not saying a low birth rate is a good thing--it's suicidal for a country, actually--but it would drive down the crime rate 15 to 20 years later.
I'm not saying a low birth rate is a good thing--it's suicidal for a country, actually--but it would drive down the crime rate 15 to 20 years later.
This is my opinion and other people who pay attention to demographics. It's three facts put together: 1) our birthrate has fallen to barely sustaining our population; 2) Young men commit most of the crimes. 3) There are proportionally fewer younger men than ever.
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