
Retired Attorney General Eric Holder pushed back on statements made last week by FBI Director James Comey in which Comey suggested the so-called Ferguson effect might be responsible for a recent rise in crime in cities around the country.
by John Sexton29 Oct 2015, 8:42 PM PST0

In a front page story on their website, the New York Times is reporting that FBI director James Comey said Friday in a speech at University of Chicago Law School that the onslaught of criticism of law enforcement “may be the main reason for the recent increase in violent crime.”
by Lee Stranahan23 Oct 2015, 5:36 PM PST0

A Gallup poll finds that Americans feel crime is on the rise, with more Americans saying there is more crime this year than last year.
by Warner Todd Huston22 Oct 2015, 10:06 PM PST0

This week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released its annual Uniform Crime Report (UCR), which summarizes a year’s worth of violent crime statistics from across the country. At a glance, it shows that violent crime is down across the country and in the State of Texas. However, the data used to make these assessments doesn’t include kidnappings or specify what crimes are drug- or cartel-related, painting a skewed picture of everyday life along some parts of the southwest border.
by Sylvia Longmire1 Oct 2015, 10:58 AM PST0

There has been a dramatic rise in urban gun crime across the UK in the past 12 months, leaping by nearly a quarter in London, statistics reveal. The rise coincides with increases in stabbings, knife possession and serious youth violence
by Liam Deacon30 Sep 2015, 2:09 AM PST0

On August 28, the NRA presented ATF and FBI data showing Americans have purchased “170 million new guns” since 1991, and violent crime has fallen “51 percent.”
by AWR Hawkins31 Aug 2015, 5:18 PM PST0

Police departments across the country that have spent years boasting about plummeting crime numbers are now scrambling to confront something many agencies have not seen in decades: more bloodshed.
by Breitbart News12 Jul 2015, 1:49 PM PST0

In April, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti boasted in his State of the City speech, “As long as I’m your mayor, I won’t duck bad news. I’m going to own it.” Garcetti may not want to own the newest data that shows that the overall crime rate in his city for the first half of 2015 spiked higher than any time in over ten years.
by William Bigelow8 Jul 2015, 12:58 PM PST0

A man was shot and killed Saturday night at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas Avenue in the fourth violent incident to occur in the area in the past 19 months.
by Daniel Nussbaum9 Feb 2015, 11:55 AM PST0