Detroit recorded 308 criminal homicides in 2010, a 15.4% drop from the previous year’s count of 364. Non-fatal shootings were also down 10.5% from the previous year. We the people should be concerned about this each and every day because it’s getting dangerous and out of hand. Detroit is the capital of Michigan and without it we pretty much don’t have anything. In 2007 analysis said that Detroit officials noted about 65 to 70 percent of homicides in the city were confined to a narcotics catalyst.
They both have a high rate of robberies, but Philadelphia has a larger robbery rate than Baltimore. Baltimore and Philadelphia had recent drops in the citizens that are willing to report crimes. Philadelphia is located in the state of Pennsylvania, and the population is estimated 1,447,395. Philadelphia has 10,170 robberies in 2010 . Over the past year the rate of robberies has increased by more than 1,000.
A startling 293 murders were reported in 2010 in Los Angeles and 32 murders for Long Beach and yet it is even more shocking to know there are far more forcible rapes that occur in both of these areas. I would think that population size, diversity and other environmental factors have something to do with the differences in these numbers. The murder rate seems to have decreased while forcible rape increased in both cities, with an additional 630 incidents in Los Angeles and an additional 102 incidents in Long Beach. On the other hand, for the past several years, crime rates have dropped continually. The Los Angeles Police Department reported in 2008 that
In 2009, according to the Officer Down Memorial website, 127 officers were killed in the line of duty. This doesn't mean that police work isn't dangerous. The nature of law enforcement means seeing people at their worst: in the middle of a domestic dispute, in street fights, or high on drugs. Police approach situations from which others would run away. Today’s law enforcement officers face a multitude of dangers in their everyday duties that rival the threat of getting shot.
MPs, bereaved parents, health professionals and junkies themselves say radical measure are needed to stamp out the city’s problem – the worst in Europe. Drugs deaths have risen sharply in recent years. In 1992, 43 young Glaswegians died; last year, the figure was 97 out of total of around 140 north of the border. In a city of 650,000 people the rate is worryingly high. Compared to the rest of Britain, it is shocking.
The crime rate for robberies in Albany in 2010 was 105.1 per 100,000 people. In Abilene the crime rate for robberies in 2010 was 72.7 per 100,000 people. In both metropolitan areas the crime of robbery did go down from the previous year. In Albany, GA the crime rate per 100,000 people was 152.0 in 2009, which could be considered a big drop in one year. In Abilene, TX the crime rate per 100,000 people was 91.5 in 2009.
But what most of you probably don’t know, is that this cop got away with murder, the shooting of john Williams was declared unjustified, and a normal citizen with this charge would do anywhere from 25 years to life in prison. Ian berk was charged with being negligent and got no reasonable punishment from the law, besides a short term suspension from duty. Washington state law makes it extremely difficult to press charges against any police officers around the state, and around the country it is nearly impossible for a police officer to get charged with a crime of injustices. So how will we ever catch the cops doing wrong if we can’t even charge them? Police officers around the country know this is the case, they know they can abuse their power and get away with it.
“Such policies might, in fact, upset a national balance that correlates with the unprecedented drop in crime and the rise in public safety over the past two decades” (Domenech). Mass murders track closely with the homicide rate, but over the last decade the rates have dropped to lower than they have been since the 1960’s. Mass murder attracts a lot of attention from the media and although we may think that crime is rising, according to Domenech, we are living at a time when violent crime is at a historic low. Grant Duwe, a PH. D researcher in Minnesota, blames media’s irresponsibility for creating a false impression of rising mass murder because claims makers have relied almost exclusively on national news coverage as a source of data.
More stress, chaos, and contact among inmates and staff. I believe this is a bad bill because of the increase in expenses. It is about $25,000 dollars to house one inmate per year. Just think about how much it will cost Government officials to house beyond over populated prisons. For example, if the maximum prison term for armed robbery is 15 years and that conviction is doubled, the city has to pay for an extra 15 years of housing to inmates.
A national survey was taken by Seattle Times and states that had seventy percent of all police crimes against the public go unreported (Database of Abusive Police).Despite claims to the contrary from city officials where abuses have become scandals in the media, efforts to make meaningful reforms have fallen short. The scenarios are very similar from city to city. It is a fact that officers who repeatedly commit human rights violations tend to be small minority, but are still routinely protected by silence of their fellow officers and by flawed systems of reporting. Data is also lacking regarding the police departments’ response to those incidents 2 and their plans or actions to prevent brutality. Where data does exist, there is no evidence that police administrators or,