Tag: Crime Statistics

Command

FBI Reports Active Shooter Incidents Down 50% Last Year

In 2024, the FBI designated 24 shootings as active shooter incidents, compared to 48 incidents in 2023, according to the “2024 Active Shooter Incidents in the United States” report.

June 4, 2025

Command

How the Birmingham Police Department is Addressing Violent Crime

Birmingham ended 2024 with 152 homicides, the highest number of killings in the city ever, breaking the record of 148 set in 1933. The lowlight of a violent year was the Sept. 21 mass shooting at the Hush Lounge that killed four.

March 12, 2025

Patrol

Numbers of Shootings in New York City Down to 30-Year Low, Police Say

The city saw 93 criminal shooting incidents between January and February, the fewest for those months since 1993, officials said.

March 4, 2025

Patrol

Criminal Justice Think Tank Reports Homicides Down 16% Last Year

The CCJ report shows that the downward trend appears to be continuing, with homicides in 2024 dropping by 16% compared with 2023. That drop equates to 631 fewer homicides in the 29 cities that provided data for the category.

January 29, 2025

Patrol

New York City Seeing Significant Increase in Assaults by Repeat Offenders

Suspects with at least three arrests on their rap sheet were charged with assault 442 times last year, up from 274 in 2018 — part of a pattern that shows wrongdoers are being cut loose too often, with the NYPD blaming soft-on-crime Albany lawmakers.

January 8, 2025

Patrol

Ohio City’s Police Say They Underreported Crime Stats to FBI

The underreporting began in 2013, after the department switched to its current incident-based reporting system, which allows law enforcement to better classify multiple crimes that occur within a single incident.

December 13, 2024

Command

New LAPD Chief Says Crime Statistics Skewed by Unreported Incidents

Chief Jim McDonnell voiced concern about the perception of disorder — and the reality that crimes are going unreported because some believe nothing will be done to investigate.

November 15, 2024

Point of Law

Op-Ed: Good Riddance to Gascón

California sent progressive district attorneys packing, making the state safer for cops and the people they serve.

November 13, 2024

Command

Kansas City Police Chief Announces Plan to Reduce Violent Crime

The crime plan outlines three main strategies for police to implement: data-informed community engagement (DICE), data-driven deployment and focused deterrence.

April 4, 2024

Command

Editorial: America Needs More Straight-Talking Sheriffs

“Society wants to blame everything else but where the blame should be. The blame goes to this individual,” Sheriff Billy Woods said.

February 29, 2024

Command

Editorial: Oakland's History with Police Chiefs is Crazy

The Oakland PD has been operating under a federal consent decree since January 2003. That’s not a typo. The police department has been under the control of federal courts and court-appointed monitors for 21 years.

February 29, 2024

Command

Biden Celebrates Drop in Crime Rates During Meeting with Major City Chiefs

"Last year, the United States had one of the lowest rates of all violent crime in more than 50 years," Biden told top police officials from cities including Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami, Detroit, Buffalo; Milwaukee, Charlotte, and DeKalb County, Georgia.

February 28, 2024