United States cities by crime rate

Do you own a gun? Or are you in favor of the no gun policy that is being debated in The United States? Gun laws are currently being evaluated and debated due to the large numbers of massacres and murders by guns in the US. All in all, most people can agree that America has too many crime cases relating to guns. Something needs to be done, the question that has everyone stumped, to add gun laws or to take away gun laws? Our Founding Fathers would not have hoped to see America like it is…

To narrow down exactly which crime data collection data gives the most reliable representation of crime rate in the United States I had to rule out which ones I knew where not. With all great sound arguments one must lead with the process of elimination first. So to begin this journey I first researched the three most profound data collections: Uniform Crime Report (UCR), The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), and The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The first choice…

has been used in New York City from the 1990’s until present time. Broken windows theory was first described by George Kelling and James Wilson in an Atlantic Monthly article published in 1982. The success of dropping major crime rate in New York City was due to external factors not controlled under the policing method. The premature legitimization given to James Wilson and George Kelling, paved the way for the racist “ stop and frisk” procedure to occur in New York City. The broken windows…

The United States of America is often regarded as one of the greatest countries on the face of the Earth, but we are not without our fair share of threats. Immigration itself is not a problem, due to the multiple tests any foreigner must pass in order to become a legal citizen, the problem is illegal immigration. The sad truth is most of the people coming over illegally are coming in order to commit various crimes or are simply looking for work, but at the cost of being in debt to dangerous…

The United States of America has nearly 2.2 million incarcerated individuals. As years go by that number keeps increasing, not only because of the crime rate increasing but also from private prison companies making giants of profit from people being incarcerated. According to researches the two major private prison companies received alone three billion dollars in revenue each year. These companies are knows as the CCA and the GEO group. The more people are behind bars the more money these…

as “A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Advocates for gun control believe this applies only to police and military, but will gun control actually help reduce crime. I chose to believe that stricter gun laws will not be of help, since countries and states who already have done so have seen little to no difference in crime, criminals will not be affected and still get their hands on…

implemented federally or even statewide. This is because gun control does not reduce crime nor does it make civilians more safe, it actually tends to have the opposite effect. Gun control laws in the United States would lead to more violent crime, prevent civilians from protecting themselves and allow the government to have too much power, left unchecked it may lead to tyranny. Guns create a safer community. In the United States Firearms are used in self-defence two and a half million times a…

Ingraham reports in his Washington Post article on September 29, 2014 that the United States has the highest infant mortality rate of the 27 ranked wealthiest countries. He states that, “A baby born in the U.S. is nearly three times as likely to die during her first year of life as one born in Finland or Japan.” The article also states that even though healthcare spending levels are significantly higher in the United States an American baby is more than twice as likely to die in her first year…

n Canada and the United States, the citizens believe that the crime rate is climbing and continues to climb. On the other hand, the crime rate is decreasing and has been since the 1900 's.Since Citizens believe it is climbing than why is it actually decreasing? History seems to have the answers many early criminologists came up with theories that explained crime rate falling and increasing. Many researchers have also conducted studies that explain why the crime rate has fallen. Those reasons are…

history of imprisonment rates. Their cities are the most visited cities in the United States. Many of the prisoners are in there because of their indecisive actions and the way of choosing decisions life brings upon them. We must consider how it affects the new way of their lifestyle in prison and their morales too, or how confident they feel about themselves in prison. Cities like Los Angeles, New York, and Detroit have been indeed affected by imprisonment, but the rates can be stabilized. In…