MINNEAPOLIS— After concerns over crime in the area near the University of Minnesota campus in recent years, new data is showing improvement the last few months.From the start of the school year through December, data from Minneapolis police shows a 49% decrease in reported crimes in the Marcy...
murder rate had risen 10 percent nationwide in just one year, marking the largest increase since 1968. The increase was from 2014 to 2015, the latest figures available. Murder and crime rates generally in the United States have fallen over the last several decades. President Donald ...
Overreacting to the rising US crime rate could be more dangerous than the violent crime itselfMichelle Mark
Violent crime, however, is about 0.7 percent lower than five years ago, and 16.5 percent lower than a decade ago. The violent crime rate – nearly 373 violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants in the U.S. – is almost half the 20-year high reached in 1996. Alan Neuhauser for USN≀ D...
Guns have been used for homicide and suicide at a disappointingly high rate over the years. Each life lost is a life that matters. Do we really want to let our children grow up in a world where everyone has extremely simple access to purchase firearms that could harm you? There are alway...
Policing efforts to thwart crime typically rely on criminal infraction reports, which implicitly manifest a complex relationship between crime, policing and society. As a result, crime prediction and predictive policing have stirred controversy, with the
For example, robberies have dropped 30% over the last 6 years, proving the value of an integrated security system. The addition of these Hikvision cameras, will maintain this trend, which provides a new picture and reputation for the previously ‘crime-plagued’ city of Aulnay-Sous-Bois. ...
With a crime rate of 132.4 per 1,000 people Cleveland, in North East England, had the highest crime rate of all the police force areas in England and Wales in 2023/24. High crime rates are evident in other areas of northern England, such as West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester at 121.7...
"it's the second year in a row, we had not only fewer homicides, but also had 127 fewer shooting victims," Moore said, noting it was the lowest number over the last four years. The department's homicide clearance rate for the year was 76%, with ...
Over the last 40 years, the question of how crime varies across places has gotten greater attention. At the same time, as data and computing power