Conventional wisdom about violence is wrong, Jens Ludwig, director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, says in ...

Karen Read murder trial jurors took a trip to Canton Friday to visit 34 Fairview Road, where John O'Keefe was found unresponsive.

Karen Read pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the death of Boston police officer John O’Keefe and is facing a retrial ...

somethings accused of using attorney, who walked into the prison unaware of what he was carrying to a waiting inmate.

Shootings and murders in Chicago so far this year are lower than they’ve been in six years. Other major categories of crime ...

Voters are deciding on a ballot measure that would reauthorize a levy to fund King County's regional automated fingerprint ...

Baltimore police are facing another federal lawsuit that alleges misconduct by the internal agency responsible for overseeing ...

A former Police Department forensic science supervisor has filed a federal lawsuit against the Police Department, claiming he ...

An affidavit of probable cause to charge two men in a 2010 murder outlines how new technology helped detectives close the ...

There are helpful things to do that don’t require lots of money or a big political fight, writes Jens Ludwig, director of the ...

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