MS-13 leader Alexi Saenz was sentenced to 68 years in prison for approving the killings of individuals the gang perceived as ...

Nine alleged Road 2 Riches gang members face a 68-count indictment, including charges for 10 shootings and conspiracy to ...

Common tools and a little muscle have fueled a crime wave that may have netted one burglary crew hundreds of thousands of ...

Antonio Olmeda, 66, was convicted of attempted murder and other charges for firing at police officers in 2011. No one was ...

U.S. Marshal's arrested a Nashville murder suspect Wednesday morning in New York City. Omeed Yahya Esmail, 39, is accused of ...

New Yorkers have mixed reaction about whether crime is a concern. While there is a belief among some Republicans that New York is in the midst of a crime wave, ask New Yorkers how concerned they ...

During 2020, New York’s murder rate shot up by 47 percent, to 468, from 319 the year before. That was the biggest one-year increase the city has ever seen, by far.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul raised the possibility of a hate crime in the murder of 24-year-old Sam Nordquist, a transgendered man, as five people face charges.

New York City recorded 438 murders in 2022, and murder in the city is down about 11% so far in 2023 compared to the same point in 2022. By contrast, the city recorded 2,262 murders in 1990.

COMPSTAT is the New York Police Department’s digital data system detailing weekly crime statistics. It reveals that the city’s violent crime is mostly limited to just a handful of neighborhoods.

Through the first six months of 2023, the state’s violent crime rate outside New York City dipped 6% compared with the same period in 2022, Gov. Hochul’s office said Thursday.