Collecting My Thoughts

Fifteen unarmed black men were shot by police last year (and that usually doesn't happen unless a crime is taking place). However, about...

USAFacts.org is an excellent source of what local, state, federal entities spend using all the statistical sources that are published such a...

Before the current staged riots which have increased crime rates for 2020 in major cities, crime was decreasing. (Nine police have been shot...

A police officer is 18 1/2 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.” H...

A total of 194 shooting incidents involving black victims occurred in New York City in June, a 177% increase from the 70 recorded in June 20...

Every article I read about BLM--left, right, middle, Christian, secular, black or white--begins with the obligatory statement about violence...

Listening to people call the Mike Gallagher show to talk about what's open during this Covid19 crisis in their town. One from Virginia c...

There is so much propaganda using statistics about men who commit crimes--black and white. It's not exactly "fake," but it is ...

The Arbery shooting in Georgia reflects the need for Democrats to make everything about race. Nothing is ever a love affair gone sour, an in...

Violent crime . All the data show violent crime went down after the early 90s--by about half. (Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act...

Highlights on school crime.  https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2018/2018036.pdf    It's decreased in this century, but would you know from the new...

When reading statistics, watch the terms. Rank, rate, number, percent. For instance, Alaska RANKS 4th in the nation for black homicides. ...

In President Trump’s speech Tuesday, January 8 from the Oval Office: “In the last two years, ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens w...

This non-profit has been launched by Steve Ballmer and wife Connie.  Although most non-profits established by wealthy capitalists claim to b...

Most people don't follow crime statistics, and probably not hate crime statistics, but I do. The law that hate crimes had to be collect...

I think it was either Wall Street Journal or Washington Post that posted a side by side view of what trends on Facebook on various issues. I...

The murder rate within the black male population of Baltimore is about 156 per 100,000. Young black men being killed by other young black m...

Academics still blame the higher rate for violent crime on poverty and discrimination.  Not so. “The formula for escaping poverty as an ...

Chicago, Obama's home town, probably wonders why he didn't go there instead of Oregon to talk about the problem of gun violence.  Mi...

but it did fill up the prisons. The Omnibus Crime Bill was passed in 1993 providing stiffer sentences and more money for crime control. Fi...