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

The identifications were among half a dozen Northern California cases that investigators closed in just over a month. In each case, Othram, a forensic lab in Texas, developed DNA profiles from the ...

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

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

Despite new hires, the TBI's firearms evidence backlog stretched to 71 weeks in March. Discover why evidence in gun crimes ...