Through Decades of work in the field along with research I found over 70% of all gun murders are tethered to illegal drug disputes. So is most non-violent and violent crime. Seems to me repealing drug prohibition would increase Public Safety significantly. There's a link for you to check out, don't worry it's fine lawenforcementactionpartnership.org
Hi Jeff: You write that "Gun violence is clearly falling nationally which shows up in city samples and it shows up in Gun Violence Archive data." Maybe it's the switch to daylight savings muddying my cognitive abilities but the chart (city-pre-covid-now-percent change) seems to indicate rising not decreasing shootings for most cities. Am I reading this correctly?
I have a friend who retired from Memphis’ PD. They don’t want to publish that data, it would look terrible.
How did you pull the shooting data for New Orleans? I am struggling a lot. I am trying to pull the data from their open data portal (ex 2024: https://data.nola.gov/Public-Safety-and-Preparedness/Electronic-Police-Report-2024/c5iy-ew8n), but I am noticing several issues, like repeat 'item_number' that seem too big. For example: 'A-11290-21'.
Through Decades of work in the field along with research I found over 70% of all gun murders are tethered to illegal drug disputes. So is most non-violent and violent crime. Seems to me repealing drug prohibition would increase Public Safety significantly. There's a link for you to check out, don't worry it's fine lawenforcementactionpartnership.org
Hi Jeff: You write that "Gun violence is clearly falling nationally which shows up in city samples and it shows up in Gun Violence Archive data." Maybe it's the switch to daylight savings muddying my cognitive abilities but the chart (city-pre-covid-now-percent change) seems to indicate rising not decreasing shootings for most cities. Am I reading this correctly?
I just offered https://www.crimeinamerica.net/so-its-impossible-to-have-an-honest-conversation-about-crime/ and I plan on following this with an overview of recent crime articles. My premise is that statistics and perceptions are clashing.
Thanks, Len.