Crime
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?
Proactive police officers can prevent burglars from wreaking havoc in a community
Funded by a Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grant, the new Harris County Senior Justice Assessment Center brings together a multi-disciplinary team
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
Two convicted sex offenders suspected in the murders of 4 women checked in with police every month and wore their GPS trackers around the clock
The system, known as wide-area surveillance, is something of a time machine — the entire city is filmed and recorded in real time
A suspected bank robber died in a hail of bullets during a midday shootout Monday
A Baltimore man was arrested Wednesday after trying to rob an Annapolis hair salon and being laughed out of the place
Two Minnesota burglary suspects are arrested after police say one of them accidentally called 911 and left the line open as the pair discussed the crime
Police in Louisville, Ky., say a man called 911 after falling from a ladder and breaking his leg in the middle of a home break-in
While some city leaders believe Oakland is only a year away from meeting its goals, others are concerned the city is stuck in a hopeless, expensive, bureaucratic grind that takes valuable resources away from crime fighting
A report of a shooting at Virginia College in Spartanburg County sent deputies racing to the scene
Superintendent says he’d been thinking about adding a walking beat to the arsenal of new community policing tactics he’s rolled out
An off-duty police officer was at home with his 7-year-old daughter when at least three men tried to break into his home
The man was a suspect in at least one of a series of armed robberies in Spokane taking place since the beginning of March
Beneath the strings of red paper lanterns and narrow alleyways of the nation’s oldest Chinatown lies a sinister underworld
An officer enjoying a day off found himself suddenly back on the job Friday afternoon when he came home to discover it was being burglarized
Police served more than two dozen search warrants and made several arrests after a months-long investigation into baggage theft at LAX
Suspect robbed the store a day after his release
A masked man carrying a shotgun entered the restaurant and tried to rob it. The sheriff’s deputy was eating at the restaurant and confronted the suspect
Applied DNA Sciences uses a DNA-based, anti-theft mark in a pilot project with Swedish police.
There were 212 bank robberies last year — the lowest since the 1960s — in a seven-county region overseen by the FBI’s Los Angeles office
International criminal enterprises follow the money, and they are increasingly focusing on Calif. because of its wealth and innovation
Predictive analysis — the digital dissection of police data to identify likely offenses, their locations and even perpetrators — may sound like a concept straight out of the science fiction film “Minority Report”
League started after members of the Police Department approached New Haven Family Alliance street outreach workers and other groups about ways to reduce violence
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