Hotspot policing goes back decades and police are increasingly instituting it to combat rising gun violence. But it's also ripe for abuse.
The FBI's 2021 crime stats offer a window into the level of violence in some of America's biggest cities. Here's what the data says.
As Milwaukee sees one of the highest homicide rate spikes in the U.S., police and some activists blame Wisconsin's restrictive bail laws.
The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program (UCR) estimated that homicides increased in 2021. However, this year's report comes with a giant asterisk. Here's why.
In Philadelphia, Chicago, and Maryland, local leaders and police are turning to curfews for teenagers. Researchers say that there is no evidence that curfews reduce crime.
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The affidavit from former Louisville Metro Police Department Detective Kelly Goodlett pulls back the curtain on the investigation that led to the botched police raid.
A judge in Colorado citing the Supreme Court's ruling in a New York case in issuing a temporary restraining order on an assault weapons ban.
Former Louisville Det. Kelly Goodlett is the first to plead guilty to federal charges in the killing of Breonna Taylor—leading to questions about whether they might cooperate with the Justice Department.
Four officers involved in the police raid that killed Breonna Taylor were arrested on federal charges more than two years after her death.
Criminal justice researchers believe that the resignations in Kenly, N.C., and other towns show that increased scrutiny on police could be leading more small-town cops to hang up their badges.
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Homicides have decreased slightly in 2022 after hitting historic highs, according to a Council on Criminal Justice report. They are still 39% higher than they were in 2019.
Miah Cerrillo, 11, described how she survived the shooting at her elementary school in Uvalde, Texas by rubbing herself in her friend's blood and staying quiet in a video to the the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
So far, there have been 247 mass shootings this year, and 13 in the first weekend of June. There have been nearly 19,000 deaths as a result of firearms in the U.S., which includes more than 8,300 homicides as of June 6.
Gun violence has trended upwards since the start of the pandemic. In 2020, firearms became the leading cause of death for children and teens.
The intersection remains the subject of an ongoing debate over how to memorialize a man whose death jolted the nation out of complacency.
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