The University of Chicago Crime Lab's Policing Leadership Academy tackles some serious topics like how to make data-driven decisions or how to help officers handle on-the-job trauma ...

Philadelphia police officers joined officials across the country in a new course that aims to change the culture of policing ...

The Chattanooga Police Department announce that Division Chief of Professional Standards David Young has graduated from the University of Chicago Crime Lab’s Policing Leadership Academy ...

The University of Chicago Crime Lab says while Chicago is doing well, crime rates remain higher than those in New York and Los Angeles. "I think it is too early to take a victory lap and say ...

Ludwig is the director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, and he uses as a heuristic the psychologist Daniel Kahneman’s version of the distinction between System 1 and System 2 thinking.

Neronha criticizes the lab's operation under the oversight of an "academic institution" – the University of Rhode Island. As he sees it, the crime lab's work at the university is separated from ...

Emily Talen, professor in the division of the social sciences and director of the Urbanism Lab at the University of Chicago, said a new challenge will be presented each year. This year’s topic ...

Between 2015 and 2019, researchers at the University of Chicago Crime Lab followed 1,000 Chicago teens who were offered Choose to Change and compared their outcomes to 1,000 similar kids who only had ...

This summer, the Crime Lab will host its 2nd Annual Forensic Science Summer Academy with Loyola University Maryland for high school students, free of charge. Additionally, the lab will launch a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Dropping violent crime rates are grabbing headlines across the country while preliminary federal data also suggests a significant drop for many cities across the U.S. Mayor ...