A recent study demonstrates that the risk of firearm-related death or injury is more acute for young Black and Latino men who live in certain zip codes than for U.S. soldiers who were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Black Americans are 12 times as likely as White Americans to die by firearm homicide.

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Why are so many professionals leaving law enforcement, corrections, and youth services?  

Compared to the general population, law enforcement officers face a 54 percent higher risk of dying by suicide.

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The overwhelming majority of Americans expressed satisfaction with their contacts with American law enforcement and most indicated a willingness to engage them again. 

Contact with police during the past 12 months decreased by 21%. It continues to decrease throughout the three USDOJ reports. 

Both the number and percentage of residents experiencing the threat of force “or” use of nonfatal force were lower in 2022 (748,800, 1.5%) than in 2020 (1,045,600, 1.9%).

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The podcast uses an AI service to generate audio from original articles on Crime In America.Net (https://crimeinamerica.net) written by Leonard Sipes. Sipes has decades of hosting and producing national and regional award-winning audio and video podcasts and television shows for state and national criminal justice agencies.