For example according to the paper in the 1950s 53 percent of Americans in their 20s read newspaper coverage of national politics, while today only about 30 percent watch any kind of news coverage and 24 percent don’t even care to watch at all. This shows that the argument of a decaying news audience is well supported by studies and statistics. Another big source of information for this essay is Nielsen/ NetRatings. Nielsen is a company that mainly focuses on providing companies such as NBC, CBS, and ABC numbers on many things including the number of viewers at a determined hour, peak times, primetime information and results on new shows. Although there are problems with Nielsen methods, for example they only survey people by phone calls and do not
Government agencies use these reports to document crime and do further research on crime in the nation. After a few years of reporting with the first program created, the UCR or Uniform Crime Reporting Program, another program had evolved from that having the FBI designated to coordinate the latest program, NIBRS or the Nation Incident Based Reporting System. With the UCR you could not differentiate between misdemeanor and felony crimes, so the NIBRS was created to gather more in depth and detailed crime data. The NIBRS collects detailed data on every single crime occurrence. Along with those programs came the NCVS or National Crime Victimization Survey, this survey is a self-reporting survey which victims report their own incidents.
Burglary arrests were slightly higher 2007 and 2008, but remained markedly less than in the 90’s. Larceny (mainly shoplifting), auto thefts and arson went down slightly. Why aren’t
In the article "Self-Awareness to Being Watched and Socially..." written by Rialto Chief of Police T. Farrar, (2013) a study was conducted by researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology in Rialto, California issuing body cameras to all 2,038 Rialto Police Department frontline officers. The study concluded with results that after supplying and mandating every police officer to wear a body camera, complaints against the department were significantly lower in conjunction with the use of force by officers. The Rialto Police Department’s complaints against police officers dropped 80 percent compared to the year before and the use-of-force was lowered by 60 percent among
“The reality is that crime has gone way down in New York City and that stop and frisk has certainly contributed to it. I get the fact that the statistics show nearly 686,000 stops in one year and that's way, way, way up from 2002 where it was just over 97,000 but I feel that it's working. It's keeping guns off the street. It's kept crime down to numbers that this city never imagined and, unfortunately, sometimes it takes things like stop and frisk to make that a reality” (Huffington post). People want to feel safe, if you do not feel safe in a community you move.
"Bring Back Flogging" was published on February 20, in 1997 in the Boston Globe. In this essay, Jeff Jacoby describes the weak points of today's criminal justice system, and claims that flogging should be our option because it is a much quicker, cheaper, educational, and a more effective way than imprisonment. In his argument, Jacoby does show a good amount of evidence, but he does not seem to support his points. He points out that about 1.6 million Americans were in jail that year (1997), and that this number was 3.5 times larger than that of 1980. This seems to show the weakness of the criminal justice system.
Since the 1990’s homicide rates have been in decline. Between 1991 and 2000 homicide rates dropped nearly 44% and have remained steady since. This decline in crime rate has been debated and analyzed since with everyone from politicians to police chiefs taking the credit. Policing and Crime Rate Community Policing is one of the programs many like to cite as having a direct effect on the crime rate. Theories about “Broken Windows” and reducing small crime reduces serious crime have been bandied about by Police Commissioners and Mayors.
In 2003 Samsung ranked 25 from number 34, which shows that it was able to compete and be successful in the market with its new products. Samsung’s debt of $15billion in 1997 has been reduced to $4.6 billion by 2002. It was also able to survive in the Asian financial crisis due to its product being different than its competitors. The net profit of $5.9 billion compared to $2.8 billion in
President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial did not deter his approval ratings as he maintained an approval rate higher than 60 percent. "More than a third (37 percent) of those who believe he is lying still say they approve of
For example in 2004, crimes rate for states do not use the death penalty had 4.08 murders per 100000 inhabitants compare to states use death penalty had 6.32 murders per 100000 inhabitants. Besides that, Europe and Canada which without death penalty had lower crime rate compared to United State. Furthermore, imprisonment as the deterrent is more effective than death penalty. The presidents of country’s top academic criminological societies show that 84%