The FBI will begin tracking animal cruelty cases just as they track other crimes, Wayne Pacelle of The Humane Society of the United States said in a blog post Tuesday.
Read More →A Washington Post report on the difficulties in quantifying the number of police shootings every year.
Read More →Detroit has experienced 37 percent fewer robberies in 2014 than during the same period last year, 22 percent fewer break-ins of businesses and homes, and 30 percent fewer carjackings.
Read More →Starting in 2015, just about all of the varying crime-stopping functions on a state level in Alabama will fall under one department, the new Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
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Cell phones are being snatched at an increasing rate in the Washington metro area, a trend seen nationwide.
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New police statistics show total crime - violent and nonviolent - plummeted nearly 30 percent in Camden, N.J., in the first quarter of 2014 compared to the same quarter in 2013.
Read More →Matthew Ranson, an environmental economist at Cambridge-based Abt Associates, a public policy research and consulting firm, predicts that over the remainder of this century, rising temperatures in the United States will lead to an additional 22,000 murders.
Read More →Dallas police officials are touting what they say is an unprecedented milestone: 10 consecutive years of crime reduction in the city.
Read More →If more citizens were armed, criminals would think twice about attacking them, Detroit Police Chief James Craig said Thursday.
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Homicides dropped 18 percent in Chicago last year and crime overall was down 16 percent, according to statistics released by the Chicago PD on Wednesday.
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