Most Crime Totals Fell Last Year In Big Cities; Chicago Robberies Rose
With a few exceptions, many major U.S. cities are continuing to report declines in crime rates during 2023. In New York City, overall...
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Jan 51 min read
New Jersey Shootings Hit Record Low Since 2009
New Jersey recorded its record lowest number of shootings since the state began keeping track in 2009, the Associated Press reports. Gov....
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 34 min read
Key To Crime Decline: 'Governments Have Mainly Returned To Normal'
The national violence spike from 2020 to 2022 resulted from pandemic-related losses in staff and functionality within local governments,...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 29, 20232 min read
As Murders Soar In D.C., Officials Embrace Tough-On-Crime Policies
As homicides and carjackings mounted in 2023 and social media depicted the nation’s capital as a hellscape, Mayor Muriel Bowser and the...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 29, 20232 min read
U.S. Homicide Drop In 2023 One Of Largest Declines On Record
The nation is on course to end 2023 with one of the largest annual drops in homicides on record, according to preliminary figures from AH...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 19, 20232 min read
Public Tells Gallup Crime Is Rising, Federal Reports Disagree
Reported crime in the U.S. has declined significantly over the last year, according to FBI data that contradict a widespread national...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 5, 20231 min read
Poll Shows Americans ‘Are Bad At Perceiving Crime Trends’
Jeff Asher, data analyst and consultant, argues that Americans are bad at perceiving crime trends. In Asher’s analysis, he cites Gallup...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 1, 20232 min read
Amid Confusing Statistics, Public Views Crime As Serious Problem
Crime has been generating contradictory headlines. In October, the FBI said violent crime reports in 2022 fell to their relatively low,...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 27, 20232 min read
Why Is Gun Violence Rising in D.C., Memphis and Greensboro?
While the rates of gun violence are falling in many places, there is a small handful where it is rising. New Orleans-based crime analyst...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 27, 20232 min read
Since Pandemic, Many Oakland Residents No Longer Feel Safe
The red-tipped bullet pierces skin and melts into it, says Javier Velasquez Lopez. The green-tipped bullet penetrates armored vests. The...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 14, 20232 min read
Restaurants Struggle to Retain Diners as Crime Increases
Chefs and restaurant proprietors say crime has hit their sector particularly hard, arguably at the worst time, as many restaurants are...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 10, 20231 min read
Major City Violent Crimes Down In First Nine Months Of 2023
Reported violent crime totals in four categories -- homicides, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults -- declined in a compilation of...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 19, 20233 min read
Two Crime Measures' 'Confusing Story' -- Was Violence Up or Down?
This week, the FBI released 2022 Uniform Crime Report (UCR) data that showed a drop in the nation’s violent crime rate. Meanwhile, the...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 18, 20232 min read
Heritage Contests Think Tank View That Homicides High In 'Red' States
In January, the Third Way think tank published a report arguing that homicide rates have been higher in “red” states than in “blue”...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 12, 20232 min read
Despite Data Showing a Decrease in Crime, Critics Label L.A. Dangerous
Los Angeles violent crime has declined nearly 7% compared with this time last year, with 1,650 fewer incidents reported as of Sept. 30,...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 9, 20231 min read
Videos of ‘Flash Mobs’ Increase, It's Not Clear Incident Total Is Rising
The dramatic video footage appears on TV news and social media: A large group of people storm into a store, smashing display cases and...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 3, 20232 min read
Waves of Robberies Leave Some Chicagoans 'Freaked Out'
The call that came over the police radio Monday morning was startling if familiar: Two men in a stolen car committing robberies at ...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 28, 20232 min read
NJ AG Platkin Says Paterson Crime Dropped After State Takeover
Six months after a state takeover of the troubled police department in New Jersey’s third-largest city, state authorities say crime is...
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By Ted Gest
Sep 18, 20232 min read
U.S. Violent Crime Estimates Rose Sharply In 2022
Many categories of violent crime in the U.S. showed significant increases last year, according to the newly released National Crime...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 12, 20232 min read
Random Violent Incidents Alarm D.C. Residents, Officials
Violent crime has long been a part of Washington, D.C., life, the worst of it in the early 1990s when drug trafficking propelled the...
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