Highlights
An explanation of recent and older crime and fear of crime statistics and research for the layman.
Most federal crime reports and websites are complicated and difficult to read and understand, the reason for creating this report.
Author
Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr.
Author of ”Media Success: Everything You Need to Survive Reporters and Your Organization‘ available from Amazon and other booksellers.
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Yes, crime statistics can be complex and confusing. My goal was to put recent crime data and long-term data into a fairly short document that anyone can understand. It covers fear of crime and a variety of additional topics
To see Violent and property crime rates in the US for the full report.
I have nearly 40 years of experience summarizing crime data for presidents, governors, organizations, the media and everyday people. I have provided crime and criminal justice data during thousands of media interviews.
I have summarized crime and justice issues for dignitaries and practitioners while working for two U.S. Department of Justice-funded agencies, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (senior crime prevention specialist) and the National Crime Prevention Council (director of information services).
I have provided overviews of crime and criminal justice topics to all national and international media sources for 35 years as Director of Public Information for National Criminal Justice Agencies and the National Entities mentioned above.
I take the complex topics of crime and justice and offer observations and research summaries that the non-criminologist can understand based on my academic and criminal justice experience, including six years in law enforcement.
There is considerable complexity when discussing crime statistics. Analyzing crime becomes complex because readers must go to multiple reports or locations to understand the primary sources.
I try to answer most questions about crime and fear of crime here.
Contents
Page 1: Subsections of this report
Page 2: Context for this report – what you need to understand
Page 3: Property crime
Page 4 Summaries of Recent Crime Data, 2021-2024
Page 5: Historic lows for crime
Page 6: Crime data from city police crime dashboards
Page 7: FBI’s New Method for Collecting and Reporting Crime Data
Page 8: Explanation of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) National Crime Victim Survey.
Page 9: Who is affected by crime?
Page 10: Violent Crime Never Increased?
Page 11: We’ve never lived in safer times?
Page 12: The complexity of crime statistics
Page 13: Fear of Crime
Page 14: Identity Theft – Cybercrime
Page 15: Federal crime data presented before national elections
Page 16: Repeat victims
Page 17: Brief summaries of FBI and national crime victimization survey data by year
Page 18: Extensive summaries of FBI and national crime victimization survey data by year
Page 19: Links to sources for FBI and National Crime Victimization Survey Data by Year
Page 20: Gallup data
Page 21: Three National Actions on Violence: The FBI, the National Crime Victims Survey, and Gallup
Page 22: Appendix – Media reports on crime
Conclusions
This report is intended to serve the average reader. Crime data can be difficult to find, read and understand. There are endless interpretations and opinions about crime statistics. It sometimes seems like an impossible subject to understand. The goal was to make the data as simple and accessible as possible.
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