This week, we’re asking what the future might hold for the United States’ relationship with Honduras, what a mass kidnapping in Mexico tells us about the country’s crime wars, and whether another high ...

Criminal networks using artificial intelligence and professional money laundering syndicates pushed global illicit financial activity to an estimated $4.4 trillion in 2025, placing U.S. banks on the ...

Murders, overall violent crime and property crime are at their lowest rates in decades, but it’s unclear whether they are at record lows going back 125 years. See the sources for this fact-check ...

On May 13, 2026, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program released the First Look: 2025 Crime Data on the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer (CDE). These estimates are based on data submitted by more ...

For more than two decades, Charis E. Kubrin has followed the data wherever it leads. As UC Irvine Chancellor's Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, she has built a career studying one of America ...

Last summer, a protester in Seattle made an anti-police sign with an unusual message. Hey SPD, it read. Crime is down 20 percent, and you had nothing to do with it. The taunt was glib, but it hinted ...

Crime fell across much of the U.S. in 2025 — in the Midwest, the South, the Northeast and the West, in big cities and small towns, and in red and blue states. The number of murders saw a huge drop — ...

The new chief constable at Essex Police has said crime linked to the large asylum accommodation in the county is "very low". Rachel Nolan said there was "absolutely no reason" for anyone to be ...