President Donald Trump has said multiple cities could face federal action to deal with their violent crime, after he declared a public safety emergency in Washington, D.C. Newsweek has produced a map ...

U.S. homicide rates surged to 7.3 per 100,000 between 2020 and 2023 compared to the 5.6 average from 2014 to 2019. Firearms accounted for 80% of reported U.S. homicides in 2023 compared to 68% in 2014 ...

You may not know it from all the crime-filled tabloid headlines, but murder rates are in free fall across the U.S., said Sophie Clark in Newsweek. So far this year, homicides in big cities are down 20 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Amid the national debates over urban crime, an analysis by cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer examined the disparities between Cleveland and its surrounding suburbs. Using FBI and ...

One of the most predictable clichés in journalism is "if it bleeds, it leads"—the idea that media have a bias for salacious, grisly stories. Like many stereotypes, it's very much based in truth, which ...

The city of Baltimore, which has often been used as a symbol in mainstream media for violent crime, hit a significant and positive milestone as its murder rate dropped significantly. The achievement ...

Defending Chicago in a recent Fox News interview, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said it was “not in the top 30” of “big cities” with the highest rates of murder. But in 2024, Chicago had the 15th highest ...

President Donald Trump is sending the National Guard to Washington to combat what he called “bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.” But crime data paints a much more nuanced picture of what’s going ...