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 ...

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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 ...

according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. "Black Chicagoans are 20 times more likely than their white counterparts to be killed by a gun or to be a victim of a homicide. So, we often hear ...

“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 ...

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.