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 ...

Target blamed theft and violence when it closed nine stores in four cities earlier this year, but a CNBC investigation found reported crime is worse at most of the locations it kept open near those ...

As legalized sports betting sweeps across the country, new research shows the policy shift comes with a hidden public safety cost: a measurable rise in violent and impulsive crime on game days. “What ...

Linda Qiu has been a fact-check reporter for nearly a decade and has covered three presidential races. By former President Donald J. Trump’s account, the country is awash in crime. But in fact, under ...

The FBI released detailed data on over 14 million criminal offenses for 2023 reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program by participating law enforcement agencies. More than 16,000 state, ...

Anna Schecter is the senior coordinating producer for CBS News and Stations' Crime and Public Safety Unit, based in New York. Crime decreased in every category in 2024, including murder, violent crime ...

Anna Schecter is the senior coordinating producer for CBS News and Stations' Crime and Public Safety Unit, based in New York. Violent crime rates in the U.S. have plummeted, with the nation's murder ...