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The estimated number of violent crimes in the nation decreased 4.4 percent in 2013 when compared with 2012 data, according to FBI figures released today. Property crimes decreased 4.1 percent, marking the 11th straight year the collective estimates for these offenses declined.
Read More →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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