United States cities by crime rate

years old in the United States. Out of that number, 225 out of every 100,000 were arrested in 2010. The great News is that the rate of youth offenders has dropped since 1994 (by 55%) but even with that reduction, it just shows that the number of youth arrested is still at an alarming rate (Juvenile Delinquency Statistics, n.d.). In this body of work, two different programs and reduction efforts will be described, the determination of sociological theories that shape the City of Miami-Dade…

In the past the phrase, “inner cities” has been used for years being a very popular term in the 1960’s and 1970’s to describe the run down parts of major cities. These descriptions had many negative connotations and many times have different demographic stereotypes related to them. In the past week during the presidential debate Donald Trump made a comment on the danger of inner cities which sparked a conversation about how inner cities have become city and how the term in itself is dated. Two…

Tracking criminal data in the United States is a large part of the process in understanding and preventing further crimes in each community and every year the FBI releases an analytical statistics report for crimes committed in the United States, called the Uniform Crime Report (UCR). The UCR program data collection is done by individual agencies, such as police departments where they compile data by arrests and offenses. This system is called the Summary reporting system or SRS and the data…

Introduction The United States established its first centralized Police force in 1838, following a century of police “watches” that consisted merely on a volunteer workforce. The city of Boston Massachusetts became the first State to modernize policing, and was shortly followed by New York City in 1845, and Albany, and Chicago in 1851. By the 1880s all major U.S. cities had municipal police forces in place (Potter, 2013). Compared to the “town watch” the new police Force consisted of four…

economics. According to the information that were published by Morgan Winsor, “A study showed that immigration think tank called the ‘Migration Policy Institute’ found that Texas would lose $69.3 billion in economic activity, $30.8 billion in gross state product and roughly 403,174 jobs if immigrants in Texas were given legal status” (Immigration reform 2015). It might being sound surprising, that the undocumented immigration contribute to our economics as much a normal citizens who live in…

fighting for those rights. The entitlement is so valuable to the American people that the law was placed second on the bill of rights. In today’s world, many politicians are trying with all of their power to make personal gun ownership illegal in the United States. In many incidences, this is done in response to the murders, mass shootings, and the use of semi-automatic assault rifles. Victims’ families of these tragic events want something done to avenge the death of their loved ones, often the…

Banning firearms reduces crime rate, gun trafficking, and the amount of lives lost to firearms. The amount of deaths by firearms became outrageous. 34,000 people get killed every year by firearms. Firearms brutally murder 13 children a day. Growing up in the United States gives someone a 12 times more likely chance to be murdered by a gun than kids from all other more developed nations combined (Join Together 1). There are more clubs for guns than McDonald’s in the United States (Han 2). In…

America’s infamous crime rate, internationally recognized as among the worst in the world, particularly in regard to crime per population of a westernized, industrial economy disgraces the United States at home and abroad. As of 2014, America has top ten status in terms of “rape, gun crime, violent crime, violent rape [legally considered as a part of assault], robberies, utilization of opiates, assault, etc.” (Nationmaster 1). Exact figures depend on the country, as most categories achieve a…

distraught and concerned over the violence, drugs, and kidnappings in their state. Many believe the reason for these crimes is the illegal immigrants that sneak, walk, or are smuggled unlawfully into Arizona from Mexico. Politicians and legislators have been tired of waiting for the federal government to fix the immigration problem in the United States, so they pushed for a change to take affect that would decrease these crimes from occurring and thus SB1070 was originated. SB1070 is also…

Crime Measurements in the United States Imani Moe North Carolina A&T State University Abstract Crime measurement is the process by which law enforcement, researchers, and other interested parties attempt to record and/or study the type and amount of crime that has occurred in a specific place or country, for example in the United States. This paper explores two reliable sources one article titled “The Nation’s Two Crimes Measures”. Second source is a criminal justice textbook…