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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.
Read More →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.
Read More →The city saw 93 criminal shooting incidents between January and February, the fewest for those months since 1993, officials said.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read More →The crime plan outlines three main strategies for police to implement: data-informed community engagement (DICE), data-driven deployment and focused deterrence.
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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.
Read More →"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.
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