Why has crime become one of the most common and favored genres in a television series? It is human nature to be curious about criminal behaviors and want to know the ‘who’, ‘what’, and ‘where’ of ...

Major US cities overall experienced a steep drop in violent crime last year, according to a statistical analysis released by the Major Cities Chiefs Association. The analysis reflects an overall ...

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 ...

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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 ...

John Kelly is an investigative journalist and the vice president of Data Journalism for CBS News and Stations. In the nearly three weeks since President Trump deployed federal troops and law ...

In 1969, a now-iconic commercial first popped the question, “How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?” This deceptively simple line in a 30-second script managed ...

President Donald Trump, justifying his temporary federal takeover of policing in the nation’s capital, claimed at a press conference Monday that the violent crime situation in Washington, DC, “is ...

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 ...

Melissa McCart is the lead editor of the Northeast region with more than 20 years of experience as a reporter, critic, editor, and cookbook author. Much like Daniel Boulud’s new (showier) Flatiron ...

In a city that has already seen nearly 500 youth gun arrests this year, a unique effort is underway to empower some of those young people to put their lives on a new path. CBS News' Michael George has ...

Join InSight Crime’s regional experts for an exclusive virtual panel examining 2025 homicide data across 31 countries, how organized crime shaped national trends, and what the widespread use of states ...