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Technology provides cops with real-time analysis to inform crime reduction strategies specific to their communities
Using philosophies similar to those of the NTSB, approximately 200 Domestic Violence Fatality Review teams have been formed since the 1990s
The 77 percent drop in crime in the ‘90s can be attributed to several social, political and technological advancements. What does that mean for today?
Woman received a Facebook friend notification and recognized the sender as the man who robbed her
An 89-year-old storeowner used a golf club to fight-off a robbery suspect who was armed with a sword Sunday morning
Sonja Gardner told officers she decided to drown her daughters in the bathtub after they asked her for snacks
Authorities blame many of the carjackings, ironically, on improvements in vehicle security
Suspect stole a sub and cash from a tip jar after trying unsuccessfully to open register
Her mother’s ex-boyfriend drugged and kidnapped her in 2004, forced her to marry him and fathered her child
71-year-old siblings were headed home April 5 when a man followed them into their apartment building
Some officers are questioning the new directive — suggesting there are bigger issues to focus on
NYPD began encouraging pharmacies to use dummy pill bottles fit with tracking devices in 2013
Surveillance video shows girlfriend entering storage unit eight times on the day officer died
31-year-old man has been arrested after he drove to a Louisiana state police headquarters while drunk to file an accident report
Police say they used social media to track a suspected kidnapper from the San Francisco Bay Area to a hotel-casino in northern Nevada
Driver is the father of a person of interest in the shooting that took place May 7
Police recorded 14,261 stops from Jan. 1 to March 31, compared with 99,788 in the same period of 2013
Voters will likely get to weigh in on whether Calif. should treat most nonviolent crimes as misdemeanors instead of felonies
Instead of fleeing, the robbers stuck around and pumped gas, offering a discount to those who paid cash
Cornealious “Mike” Anderson spent 13 years free from prison due to a clerical error, then nearly a year behind bars when the mistake was caught
Officer shot armed suspect Saturday after he tried to rob the officer of his cell phone
Squad was forced to cancel a tournament championship game after someone made off with its jerseys, gloves and bats
Students broke into their high school overnight — urinating in hallways, greasing doorknobs with petroleum jelly and taping hot dogs to lockers
A mother out with her two children became the victim of would-be purse snatchers, but an armed good Samaritan came to the rescue
NYPD undercover detectives made the single largest illegal gun buy in New York City history with the breakup of a Georgia-to-Brooklyn trafficking ring
There are more than 300 violent crews of dozens of 12- to 20-year-olds in New York
With the number of shootings in Chicago already climbing with the temperatures, police are being dispatched by the hundreds on overtime to high-crime neighborhoods
A recent spate of shootings is mostly gang-related and part of a guns-for-drugs trade that continues to bring violence to the city
In their hunt for an 11th straight year of crime reduction, Dallas police say they’re going to need more bait
Everything has been stolen — including the kitchen sink — from the kitchen of a model house in Kansas
Sheriff’s officials say a Good Samaritan suffered fatal stab wounds while chasing a thief who allegedly stabbed a woman and stole her purse
A year after Camden disbanded its police department and brought in a new one with more officers on the street, reported crime has dropped significantly
The number of shootings in NYC has increased during the past several weeks after months of declines