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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...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 27, 20232 min read
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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...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 27, 20232 min read
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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...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 14, 20232 min read
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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...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 10, 20231 min read
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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...
Crime and Justice News
Oct 19, 20233 min read
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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”...
Crime and Justice News
Oct 18, 20232 min read
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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,...
Crime and Justice News
Oct 12, 20232 min read
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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...
Crime and Justice News
Oct 9, 20231 min read
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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 ...
Crime and Justice News
Oct 3, 20232 min read
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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...
Crime and Justice News
Sep 28, 20232 min read
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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...
By Ted Gest
Sep 18, 20232 min read
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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...
Crime and Justice News
Sep 12, 20232 min read
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Why Is D.C. A Homicide Outlier, With Murders Up 27% This Year?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington, D.C., officials could safely say the nation’s capital was not alone in struggling to reduce...
Crime and Justice News
Aug 21, 20232 min read
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Oakland Crime Causing Alarm, Police Union Seeks More Officers
Oakland, Cal., police are advising residents to take added security measures amid a surge in crime, CNN reports. Some unnerved residents...
Crime and Justice News
Aug 8, 20231 min read
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D.C. Homicide Total Jumps, One Official Calls For National Guard
A surge of shootings in Washington, D.C., that left 13 people dead in the first five days of August has rattled neighborhoods across the...
Crime and Justice News
Aug 7, 20231 min read
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Violent Crime Declines Amid Police Staffing Shortages
Listening to politicians, reading headlines, or watching local television news with its motto “if it bleeds it leads,” one might think...
Crime and Justice News
Jul 10, 20232 min read
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Shootings in New York Drop as Surge of Violence Eases Nationally
Shootings in New York City dropped by about 25 percent through the first half of this year compared with last year, extending a downward...
Crime and Justice News
Jul 7, 20232 min read
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U.S. Gun Homicides Rival Record Totals From The 1990s
The U.S. witnessed five mass shootings each Independence Day on average over the past decade. more than on any other day of the year. In...
Crime and Justice News
Jun 29, 20232 min read
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Crime On Public Transit Rises As Cities Increase Police Presence
Fears of violence on public transit have caused alarm around the U.S., Scripps News reports. A national outcry was ignited by the death...
Crime and Justice News
May 22, 20232 min read
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With Reliable Data Lacking, Crime Rise Of 2020-21 May Be Reversing
Murder and violent crime in the U.S. rose sharply in 2020 and 2021, though some trends may have begun to reverse last year. The extent of...
Crime and Justice News
May 10, 20232 min read
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