ACADEMY RETROIT
UNLOCKING POTENTIAL
After the fall of the auto industry and the white flight that lead thousands of people out of the city causing a massive 264% decrease in the city's population, Detroit became one of the most dangerous cities in the United States. Detroit is a city that commonly gets its reputation as the worst of the worst with regard to crime. But according to recent statistics, the city actually performs better in some categories of crime than several other US cities. Rankings here are given for ten categories of crime, like Arson, Murder, Larceny, and Assault, and are based on crimes per 100,000 members of the population. A high ranking in a category means there is more crime there (USCollegeSearch, 2013).
#2
Motor Vehicle Theft
#3
Murder
#2
Aggravated Assault
#4
Arson
#3
Violent
Crime
#5
Burglury
Over the last three decades of the 20th century, the United States engaged in an unprecedented prison-building boom that has given United States the highest incarceration rate in the world (Wagner, 2014). This growth in the prison and jail population in the U.S. can be traced to a complex set of political developments and changes in sentencing practice. The rise in crime in the 1960s came at a time of increasing social division and the politicisation of crime at the national level (Mauer, 2001). Today it is estimated that there are now more than 6,000 jails and prisons nationwide (Brook, 2014).
USA has 5% of world population
and 25% of word's prison population
2,300,000
Incarcerated individuals (2014)
51%
increase in the total population in 42 years
670%
increase in the prison population
Certain minority groups and persons living in poverty are at much greater risk of being counted among those in prison jails, With the shift in racial policy, the numbers of African Americans in U.S. prisons and jails drastically increased, while the proportion of white men in prison declined. Between World War II and the early 1970s, the proportion of blacks in prison averaged about 30%, up from about 20% in 1928. At year-end 2002, 45% of all male inmates in state and federal penitentiaries were African American (Sage, 2012).
