In her new book “Crime Fictions,” Associate Professor of Sociology Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve analyzes the factors that ...

Violent crime fell across the United States in 2025 at rates not seen in close to a century, findings from the FBI showed. Murder and non-negligent manslaughter plummeted by more than 18% nationwide ...

EXCLUSIVE: Law & Order: Organized Crime, starring Christopher Meloni, won’t be returning for a sixth season on Peacock — or NBC. The decision doesn’t come as a huge surprise; the Law & Order spinoff’s ...

Despite the widespread use of states of emergency, the increasingly militarized response to organized crime, and the growth of criminal economies, the murder rate in 2025 across Latin America and the ...

Murders, overall violent crime and property crime are at their lowest rates in decades, but it’s unclear whether they are at record lows going back 125 years. See the sources for this fact-check ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...

It's an almost universally accepted truth that walking in well-lit areas is safer. But Aaron Chalfin, associate professor of criminology in Penn's School of Arts & Sciences; John MacDonald, ...

A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) crime report for 2024 was released in August, indicating the total amount of violent and petty crime within the United States. Security.org released a study ...

Content Warning: The following article contains discussions of sexual violence, child abuse, pedophilia, torture, animal abuse, and murder.It was early 2020, the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

President Donald Trump is sending the National Guard to Washington to combat what he called “bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.” But crime data paints a much more nuanced picture of what’s going ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Endemic vagrancy, disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks have made our cities unsafe. The number of individuals living on the streets in the ...

ENDING VAGRANCY AND RESTORING ORDER: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to restore order to American cities and remove vagrant individuals from our streets, redirecting federal ...