- All crimes have gone down. Way, way down. We don’t have a very clear explanation for why, but we’re grateful that the numbers are as good as they are.
- Lyndon B. Johnson’s Law Enforcement Assistance Administration poured millions of dollars into crime research and criminal-justice education for professionals. The field is now better educated, more professional, and more science-based than it has ever been.
- Criminology as a social science has seen tremendous growth, with ever stricter standards of adherence to the scientific method and rigor in research.
- Advances in forensic technology including DNA, improved labs, and databases like ViCAP for violent offenses and AFIS for fingerprints have vastly improved our ability to find perpetrators and hold them accountable.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Crime is trending down
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