Tag: Crime

In 1893, a physician named Cesare Lombroso published La Donna Delinquente (The Criminal Woman) in which he claimed to have discovered a new human subspecies: the “born criminal.” Lombroso rejected the idea that crime was a product of social inequality or human nature. Instea...

Anti-Asian hate crime numbers fell by 33% from 2021 to 2022, indicating the first decrease in anti-Asian hate since the start of the pandemic, according to recently released FBI crime statistics. However, anti-Asian hate crime figures remain firmly above pre-pandemic numbers, with 2022 recordin...

On April 30, Aaron Martinez celebrated his 35th birthday. A day later he was brutally murdered by his neighbor who had been harassing them for years and saying he didn’t want Latinos in his neighborhood. According to CBS News Texas, when Martinez moved to Forney more than 2 years ago, 30-...

I’ve written a few posts about the increase in 2020. A more interesting question is why things were so much worse in the 1980's. Public perception tends to be confused. A majority of voters think that crime gets worse, every year. But the reality is that there are trends, it comes ...

In my experience, working class people in the United States exist within a strange paradox. They do not like cops, often finding themselves the targets of their unfair and discriminatory harassment. At the same time, crime is a constant worry, whether it’s getting robbed at gunpoint working th...

If crime rates could explain the observed increase in federal crime legislation and spending, then one would expect continued elevated levels for both throughout the remainder of the 20th century. By 1980, the violent crime rate in the United States had risen by over 250%, peaking in 1991 ...

On May 19th, I was falsely accused and arrested. Prior to this, on January 27th, 2022. I began receiving a lot of spam emails to my personal email account as well as constant phone calls and vulgar VM’s. When I went to check my social media account, I received a warning from the San Jose Polic...