Week 6: Understanding Street Crimes
6th of October, 2021
What did you do and what did you find this week?
After gathering and analyzing some data from the questionnaire last week, I have decided to do a secondary research to understand street crimes.
What is Street Crime?
- Street Crime is any criminal offense that occurs in a public place.
What can be Street Crime?
- According to the Bureau of Justice (BJS), street crime can include violent crime such as homicide, rape, assault, robbery, and arson.
- They could also include property crimes such as larceny, arson, breaking-and-entering, burglary, and motor vehicle theft.
What happened during last 10 years?
- “The BJS found that the rate of robbery victimization increased from 1.7 per 1,000 persons in 2016 to 2.3 in 2017.”
- “In 2019, only 40.9% of violent crimes and 32.5% of household property crimes were reported to authorities.”BJS notes that there are a variety of reasons why crime might not be reported such as they feel as the police “would not or could not do anything to help,” or a belief that the crime is “a personal issue or too trivial to report.
- Baltimore, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Chicago all have witnessed a drop of more than 30% of violent crimes during COVID-19 pandemic.
- “There were substantial increases in homicides and shootings beginning in the summer of 2020, but it is not possible to tell whether this is due to the pandemic or other factors.”
Based on the secondary research, it shows that some of the violent crime rates have been decreased when homicides and shootings rates have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research also mentions how it is hard to know if these changes are due to the pandemic or other factors.
Interestingly enough, many of my responders from the questionnaire last week have mentioned how they felt less confident to walk in the streets after covid even though the data showed a decrease in violent crimes. In order to deeply understand the fear that they go through when walking alone, I have decided to conduct some interviews soon.
Interestingly enough, many of my responders from the questionnaire last week have mentioned how they felt less confident to walk in the streets after covid even though the data showed a decrease in violent crimes. In order to deeply understand the fear that they go through when walking alone, I have decided to conduct some interviews soon.
CITATIONS:
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/ccj230/chapter/1-12-different-types-of-crime-in-the-united-states/
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/20/892418244/crime-has-declined-overall-during-the-pandemic-but-shootings-and-killings-are-up
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/ccj230/chapter/1-12-different-types-of-crime-in-the-united-states/
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/20/892418244/crime-has-declined-overall-during-the-pandemic-but-shootings-and-killings-are-up