Sometimes the numbers tell one story while our gut feelings scream something completely different. Actual crime statistics ...

Crime statistics compiled by the FBI and other sources show an increase in violent crime, notably murders, in 2020 and a decline since. A revision to the FBI data this year doesn’t change that overall ...

On Tuesday, the FBI released its annual update on American crime trends, estimated from police department reports covering 2024. The big headline: America’s murder rate stood at five per 100,000 last ...

Pictured is a Houston Police Department vehicle. The Houston Police Department received reports of nearly 27,000 violent crimes in 2024, a more than 4% increase from 2023, according to preliminary ...

The 2020-era defund the police movement is echoing across the nation yet again as Democratic lawmakers and activists decry the Trump administration's efforts to snuff out crime in cities such as ...

A police officer covers protesters who have been detained pending arrest on South Washington Street in Minneapolis on May 31, 2020. AP “Make no mistake, violent crime was up under Donald Trump,” ...

Portland, Oregon, is on track to face a Trump crime crackdown reckoning that's more than five years in the making. Portland was ravaged by violence in 2020 as liberal protesters, Black Lives Matter ...

A Georgia man charged in four slayings during a 2020 crime spree across Alabama has been convicted in the killings of a Tallapoosa County couple. After 2 1/2 weeks of trial, the jury on Wednesday ...

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