#violentcrime — Public Fediverse posts

Violent Crime In The US Is At Record Lows, But The DOJ Is Eliminating The Funding That Helped Reduce Crime

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/28/violent-crime-in-the-us-is-at-record-lows-but-the-doj-is-eliminating-the-funding-that-helped-reduce-crime/

Man accused of attacking man, woman with garden stakes in Lyons | News https://www.allforgardening.com/1710530/man-accused-of-attacking-man-woman-with-garden-stakes-in-lyons-news/ #assault #Attacks #burglary #Conflicts #crime #crimes #CriminalLaw #garden #homicide #HumanRightsAbuses #LawEnforcement #LawRelatedEvents #misconduct #murder #violence #ViolentCrime

"At least 12 of the pardoned rioters have since been charged with other serious crimes, including child molestation, assault, harassment, murder plots and charges related to a vicious dog attack."

Meanwhile, Trump's pardons have unleashed a violent and financial crime wave, including *MULTIPLE* child molesters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/opinion/trump-jan-6-pardons-crimes-recidivism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XVA.pBGk.AfC_BSHFLxC9&smid=url-share

#trump #corruption #epstein #iceout #minnesota #minneapolis #crime #violentcrime

Man arrested for damaging art at Seattle’s Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum | Spokane News https://www.allforgardening.com/1663486/man-arrested-for-damaging-art-at-seattles-chihuly-garden-and-glass-museum-spokane-news/ #crime #crimes #garden #khq #LocalNews #spokane #SpokaneCounty #SpokaneNews #SpokaneValley #violence #ViolentCrime #WashingtonNews

Violent crime plummets 36% in downtown Seattle, lowest since 2017

https://mynorthwest.com/crime-blotter/seattle-downtown-crime/4146723

#HackerNews #ViolentCrime #SeattleCrime #CrimeReduction #DowntownSeattle #NewsUpdate

Teen creates earring that snaps pictures and alerts police in the event of an assault

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/earring-alerts-police-assault

"Trump claims Chicago is ‘world’s most dangerous city’. The four most violent ones are all in red states"

#USpol #USpolitics #Trump #ViolentCrime

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/trump-chicago-crime-red-states-violent

#Rural South, West states have highest #violentcrime rates: @fbi

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/01/violent-crime-rates-south-homicides-fbi-red-states

Rural South, West states have highest violent crime rates: FBI – Axios

Rural South, West states have highest violent crime rates: FBI

Reported violent crime rate, 2024

Among reporting police agencies covering 95.6% of the U.S. population

A choropleth map showing the reported violent crime rate in each state in 2024. The map uses shades of orange to represent the number of violent crimes per 100,000 residents. Alaska has the highest violent crime rate at 1,194 per 100,000 residents.

Violent crimes per 100,000 residents1001,200Data: FBI; Map: Axios Visuals

Rural states in the American South and West had some of the nation’s highest violent crime and homicide rates in 2024, driven by violence in small communities, according to an Axios analysis of FBI data.

Why it matters: A state-by-state comparison paints a complex picture of U.S. crime trends as President Trump threatens to send the National Guard to Democrat-controlled cities in blue states over concerns about violent crime.

The big picture: The president has already dispatched the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and is threatening to send troops to Chicago, Oakland, Calif., and Baltimore.

• Now Trump is facing questions about whether he’ll send troops to communities in red states — many of them largely rural — where crime rates are actually higher than the areas he’s targeted.
• “Sure, but there aren’t that many of them,” Trump said last week.

By the numbers: The southern states of Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas and South Carolina were among the national leaders in both violent crime and homicide rates last year, an Axios review of FBI data found.

• All had violent crime and homicide rates well above the national average.
• Alaska, the country’s most rural state, led the nation with the highest violent crime rate of 1,194.3 per 100,000 residents. That’s more than three times the national average of 359.1.
• New Mexico, another rural state, was second with a violent crime rate of 757.7 per 100,000 residents, more than two times the national average.

Big states such as California and New York, both targets of Trump, ranked high in total violent crime numbers because of their large populations, but their per-capita rates were similar to those of Arkansas and Tennessee, the Axios review found.

Zoom out: Alaska and New Mexico also led the nation in homicide rates with 11.3 homicides per 100,000 residents each, more than twice the nation’s homicide rate of 5 per 100,000 residents.

• Pennsylvania was third nationally with a homicide rate of 10.1, followed by Louisiana, Alabama and Tennessee.
• Illinois, home to Chicago, which Trump has called a “killing field,” had a homicide rate of 6 per 100,000 residents, ranked 20th in the nation.

Zoom in: Big-city crime often receives the most attention in political discourse, but an Axios analysis of rural states found that violence in small towns is driving some of the nation’s highest crime rates.

• For example, Fairbanks, Alaska, population roughly 32,000, had a violent crime rate of nearly 700 per 100,000 residents, about twice the national average.
• McKeesport, Pa., a city of 18,000 outside Pittsburgh, had a violent crime rate of 1,693.7 and a homicide rate of a whopping 32.5 per 100,000 people. It consistently ranks among the most dangerous cities in the country, a situation officials have largely atributed to a long-term decline in its industrial economy.

• Dyersburg, Tenn., a community of 16,000, has a violent crime rate of 1,256.5 and a homicide rate of 18.8.

Continue/Read Original Article: https://www.axios.com/2025/09/01/violent-crime-rates-south-homicides-fbi-red-states

#2025 #America #Axios #CrimeInAmerica #DonaldTrump #FBI #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Politics #Resistance #Science #Statistics #Technology #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #ViolentCrime

Trump Threatens Cities with Troops. Why?

According to Samara PcPhedron writing in The #Conversation, the author convincingly argues that #violence is not on the increase when compared to the available statistics and trends from 1995 onwards:

“…when we consider Australia’s responses when violence does occur, measures such as bans (for example, on machetes), more police powers and more (or longer) prison sentences have become the fallback.

Evidence shows these types of reactions achieve little, but in an environment of endless “crisis” it is almost impossible to make good decisions. This is made even harder in circumstances where victims and activists push politicians to implement “feel-good” policies, regardless of how ultimately fruitless those will be.”

The #politicians knee jerk reaction to reporting on violent crime is to ‘beat-it-up’ with the help of willing MSM accomplices to achieve a political agenda regardless of facts. Law enforcement agencies, for some unfathomable reasons, seem to do their very best to inflame mass hysteria.

Faced with corrupt politicians, over-eager policing and bad journalism, what are Australians to think/do? It’s an intractable problem short of universal political awakening when election time comes around again.

Boom and bust cycles are sure to repeat no matter what.

#ViolentCrime #AusPol #LawAndOrder #Politics #Journalism

Read more here:

https://theconversation.com/is-australia-becoming-a-more-violent-country-260102

Two Lodi residents dead in Garden Grove, Stockton incidents; police suspect murder-suicide | News https://www.allforgardening.com/1378543/two-lodi-residents-dead-in-garden-grove-stockton-incidents-police-suspect-murder-suicide-news/ #Attacks #california #CaliforniaHighwayPatrol #crime #crimes #death #garden #GardenGrove #gardener #gardening #GunViolence #homicide #killings #LawEnforcement #ManMadeDisasters #MassMurders #MassShootings #murder #murders #police #rampages #stockton #TerrorismTactics #violence #ViolentCrime

If #WhiteMen and their #property determine #police priorities, then police will protect white men and their property. Everything else is a "societal issue".

According to the #Queensland acting police commissioner #DomesticViolence (30-70% of all #ViolentCrime dispatch) is "mission creep" and "not a core business of policing".

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/15/domestic-violence-case-management-not-core-business-of-police-queenslands-top-cop-says

Worldwide, young men commit the most violent crimes. How should we deal with them?

In an idyllic Swiss village, young men with histories of often-violent crime are being taught how to behave better.

The alternative to prison is based on the hope that broken people can be changed. It's expensive – but staffers say it is cheaper in the long run.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250312-worldwide-young-men-commit-the-most-violent-crimes-how-should-we-deal-with-them?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Crime #ViolentCrime #YoungOffenders #Recidivism #Switzerland #Criminology #Rehabilitation

In Chicago, cognitive behavioral therapy shows promise curbing youth violence

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/17/nx-s1-5187049/cbt-program-violence

#science #psychology #cbt #sociology #socialscience #society #crime #violence #violentcrime #chicago

Interim US Attorney Ed Martin announced dismissal this afternoon of roughly 80 #FBI #federalprosecutors #DOJ #attorneys who worked on #CapitolRiots cases #jan6th in #DC office over past 4 yrs two...cuts amount to about 8% of office’s prosecutors. Combined with a recently announced freeze on #hiring #promotions, the openings will have impacts across office’s #civil #appellate #SuperiorCourt and #violentcrime divisions, where some prosecutors had been previously reassigned. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/01/31/jan6-prosecutors-fired-dc-martin/

The prosecutors were still under probationary status, allowing the firings w/o recourse under #DOJ policy….

Notifications went out Fri to people who served in the office’s now-disbanded Capitol siege prosecution section…. The cuts amount to about 8% of the office’s prosecutors. Combined with a recently announced freeze on hiring & promotions, the openings will have impacts across the office’s #civil, #appellate, #SuperiorCourt & #ViolentCrime divisions…

#law #Felon47 #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy

“If you start calling people terrorists who are not trying to overthrow governments or influence government policy … I think it’s very poorly thought-through. If he isn’t a terrorist, then don’t give him the moniker.”

#UKPolitics #Terrorism #ViolentCrime

https://www.thetimes.com/article/3198ee6e-ea7c-4142-96b9-28764c147d9d?shareToken=9622e4a9a34a1cc99956052f2d0eb78a

#GoFundMe campaigns for suspected CEO shooter #LuigiMangione appear—and are quickly removed

According to GoFundMe’s site, you’re allowed to #crowdfund for people who can’t afford their #medicalbills, but not for someone accused of a #violentcrime.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91243533/luigi-mangione-gofundme-campaigns-suspected-ceo-shooter-removed

#WhiteSupremacists’ Accelerationist #ViolentCrime Advanced by #Telegram’s #SocialMedia Channels

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/bill-berkowitz/111644/white-supremacists-accelerationist-violent-crime-advanced-by-telegram-s-social-media-channels