It's an almost universally accepted truth that walking in well-lit areas is safer. But Aaron Chalfin, associate professor of ...

A cross-disciplinary team of researchers at The University of Alabama, the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the ...

President Donald Trump has cast a spotlight on crime in several cities across the United States.Washington, D.C., was the first target when, in early August, Trump deployed National Guard troops to ...

Many believe that undocumented immigrants - or immigrants overall - commit crimes at high rates. However, decades of crime ...

PHOENIX — The FBI has made a significant change in how it reports national crime data, switching from quarterly to monthly releases. This shift allows for more granular analysis of crime trends across ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump has threatened for weeks to send National Guard troops to Chicago, claiming crime has transformed the city into a "killing field." However, Chicago Police data shows violent ...

When the Trump administration set up a federal task force to address crime in Memphis, Tennessee, last month, it cited crime data that didn't match statistics from the city's police department. While ...