A Chicago criminologist challenges our assumptions about why most shootings happen—and what really makes a city safe.

"But even that, when we talk about crime, is not what people think of," Asher says. "What they're really thinking of is murder and gun violence, and murder makes up 0.2% of all big-picture crimes ...

But the fact that so few of us feel as if we’ve entered a golden age of public safety may also teach us an important lesson ...

What makes something an “American” crime ... To look at the current crop of “American” true crime, then, is to come up with a portrait of America that’s illuminating: clearly flawed ...

"Criminals like to make these or get ahold ... So far in 2024, about 5,200 crime guns have been recovered including roughly 400 ghost guns, making up about 7.5%. In the spring, the city of ...

On the campaign trail, former President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that violent crime has "skyrocketed" since 2020. Vice President Kamala Harris has claimed that violent crime has ...

Crime is always a hot button issue in a presidential ... "It's not cherry picking to purely make up things." Politicians may take numbers out of context, but it's surprising that both sides ...

Netflix has been digging heavily into true-crime over the last few years and it’s seemingly paying off. In the streamer’s latest data dump – its What We Watched engagement report – there ...