As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in ...

PHILADELPHIA — As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides and drops in other violent crimes compared to 2023.

Experts at the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab have been diving deeper into the data to look beyond crime being up or down. In an analysis released in December, researchers found that the ...

“The presence of even one murder has a great cost,” said Kim Smith, the director of national programs at the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab. Violence interruption and intervention programs have ...

“The presence of even one murder has a great cost,” said Kim Smith, the director of national programs at the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab. Violence-intervention programs have helped ...

Authorities said there are more than 500 cases in question over the analyst’s allegedly altered reports, costing the state more than $11 million.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Joe John, a former North Carolina appeals court judge, state crime lab director and until ... John received multiple degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...

“We’re not in the clear by any means,” as Kim Smith, a director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab, put it. Chicago will always be vulnerable to unrelenting violence, unless we all do ...

Building on the success of its previous cohorts, the Golub Capital Social Impact Lab announced the selection of eight ... Hosted by the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation at the University ...

A judge sentenced a former Northeastern University employee who staged a bomb ... and director of Northeastern’s Immersive Media Lab when he staged the bomb hoax. On the evening of Sept.