Advantages and Disadvantages of Evidence Based Policing

AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
Jouca Young
Strayer University

CRJ 105
L. Hanson
April 22, 2010

AGGRAVATED ASSAULT

Aggravated assault is a more serious form of threat than an ordinary assault. This may be because the threat is made with a deadly weapon, or with the intent to rape or murder. Also most victims have been associated with the person attaching them. A violent crime is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent force upon the victim. Violent crimes include crimes committed with and without weapons. The violent act is the objective such as murders, as well as crimes to where violence is the means to an end. This type of assault is more than likely to be accompanied by the use of a weapon or by any means necessary to produce death or great bodily harm.

Each crime program collects and reports crime data and the limitations associated with the data. It reviews the history of the UCR, NIBRS and the NCVS combined, it compares the similarities and differences. It measures the effectiveness of local law enforcement and provides the law with the data that can be used to fight crime. There are two methods of the collection of crime data: the traditional summary reporting system and the NIBRS. These two collect a vast amount of data that is accessed by the general public, media, researchers and others regarding the levels of crime in the United States. The UCR also provides some of the most commonly cited crime stats in the United States it permits statistical analysis. These crimes are measured by requiring that the number of offenses to be divided by an accurate account of the population. According to several studies, when community and personal economic status is comparable between whites and blacks, there are no significant racial crime differences. Poor people are more violent and prone to crime than the middle class or the wealthy. Black criminals seem to target whites more often than each other. Whites tend to victimize each other. Black crime rates justify racial profiling; crime data makes fear of young large black men rational and logical response to the crime rate. If poverty was predicted crime, then we would expect the share of the violent crime rate to be the same as the share of the poor population. Blacks are 24% of the poor population at the same time they are committing 40% of the violent crimes in the United States. Poverty is also the second problem with blaming crime. Evidence suggests that the criminals are poor because they choose to be or they are dysfunctional and continue to commit these crimes at a tremendous level. Blacks who are poor and violent overwhelmingly live in a black neighborhood where they will go for days without seeing a white person. Blacks tend to victimize whites at rates that are higher than white on black crime. Of course, even if blacks did not specifically target whites, considering that they are more likely to be violent and use weapons when they are committing a crime, it would be perfectly rational to fear them.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics released its findings about the estimated 4.9 million violent crimes committed last year. These crimes were committed during the hot summer months; the statistics are based on crimes reported to the local police, while Justice Department Statistics is derived from household and individual surveys. In fact, the Justice System statistics are based on interviews with citizens, it counts not only reported crime but also the crimes police never hear about. Murders, Robberies, and Aggravated Assaults in the United States increased last year, giving an overall rise in violent crime. Crime last increased in all regions due to the economy. Despite dire predictions in desperate times, violent crime dropped nearly 6% last year. Some Law Enforcement officials and Politicians had predicted a surge in killings, robberies, and other crimes as the economy tanked, jobs were cut and financial hardships settled. The nation as a whole saw fewer crimes last year; the good news is that the crime rate did drop; the bad news is that the South still has the highest violent crime rate of any region in the nation.

References

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm

References: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm