The University of Chicago Crime Lab, a valuable resource the Chicago Police Department has used to analyze its policies and practices, is getting a new leader Monday.

The University of Chicago Crime Lab announced the creation of the Community Safety Leadership Academies (CSLA) at a launch event held at Rubenstein Forum on Tuesday, May 10. The program aims to train ...

A team of University of Chicago Crime Lab researchers found a possible link between improving police officer wellness and reducing misconduct in a study published Monday.

Conventional wisdom about violence is wrong, Jens Ludwig, director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, says in “Unforgiving Places,” in which he looks at why Greater Grand Crossing has so ...

The crime lab was established in 2008 with a $100,000 grant from the university's provost. This was in response to the murder of a UChicago doctoral student and reports of shootings affecting ...

Sitting together on stage at Venue SIX10, both Johnson and Janice K. Jackson, CEO of Chicago Public Schools, reflected on the city’s collaboration with UChicago’s Crime Lab and Education Lab (created ...

Leaders from various groups helping disrupt crime met to discuss what has been going on this summer in Chicago, and how to ...

The University of Chicago’s Crime Lab is premised upon a faith in data and the belief that governments fail to address systemic issues because of the complexities of the issues that communities face.

The lab’s analysis of Chicago Police Department information shows that the pain and harm caused by a crime spike that began in 2020 is more acute in some of Chicago’s most vulnerable ...

Crime Lab’s mission grew out of tragedy. In November 2007, UChicago PhD Amadou Cisse was shot walking near campus in a robbery, one of 443 homicides in Chicago that year. The 29-year-old’s death ...

A new analysis from the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab pinpoints where and when violent crime primarily occurs in the city — down to the hour and 1,000-by-1,000-foot block. The new numbers ...

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