Santa Monica Police Department reported a 2% decrease in serious Part I crimes in 2024 while Part II crimes increased 16%, according to the department's annual report presented to the City Council on ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (March 26, 2025) — The Poynter Institute is proud to announce the newsrooms selected for the 2025 cohort of Transforming Local Crime Reporting into Public Safety Journalism, led ...

MLive reporter Cole Waterman discusses his daily routine and how he stays on top of local crime news, from monitoring police incident logs to filing public records requests.

The series explores one of Britain’s most notorious criminal cases - the kidnap and murder of teenager Lesley Whittle by a ...

Collage of Getty Images featuring the three Mayors on the frontline of America’s Crime Rate Reduction : (1) Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin/Getty Images, (2) Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson/Getty ...

The Philadelphia Police Department touts a $20,000 reward for information leading to convictions in homicide cases, but some rewards don't always get paid to tipsters. In the months following an NBC10 ...

During his 2024 campaign for his eventual second-term in office, President Donald Trump falsely claimed violent crime was higher under the Biden Administration. He referred to rampant crime as one of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina remains one of only two states without a hate crimes law, which would impose harsher penalties for crimes motivated by bias. In the absence of a state law, more than 20 ...