CNN

The FBI releases crime stats months after the fact. This new crime tracker is trying to be more timely – and the FBI is too

In September 2024, the FBI released data with some retroactively good news: Violent crime declined across the US in 2023. Has that trend continued this year? The FBI’s preliminary information says yes ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Here’s how Penn reports and tracks crime on and around campus

The Clery Act requires institutions of higher education participating in federal student aid programs to report information ...
City Journal

Urban Crime Wave

Crime rates are falling, the mainstream press reports. Despite what it calls the “widespread national perception that law-breaking and violence are on the rise,” NBC News maintains that the opposite ...
Homeland Security Today

Twelve Tribes Selected for National Crime Information Program

The Department of Justice has selected an additional 12 federally recognized Tribes to participate in the expansion of the Tribal Access Program for National Crime Information (TAP), a program that ...
CNN

Fact check: Trump falsely claims US crime stats are only going up. Most went down last year, including massive drop in murder

Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed on Tuesday that US crime statistics are “only” going up. In fact, most US crime numbers went down last year – and the decreases included one of the ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Modernizing the Nation’s Crime Statistics

A panel of the National Research Council assessed and made recommendations for the development of a modern set of crime measures in the United States and the best means for obtaining them. A panel of ...
Yahoo

Violent crime went up, not down under Biden, revised FBI numbers show

Violent crime increased under Joe Biden rather than decreasing as previously thought, revised figures from the FBI show. Thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults occurred in ...