Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Crime is falling across the United States in every category except one—shoplifting. According to the latest report from ...

Crimes across the city of San Diego, including homicides, sexual assaults and thefts, fell by nearly 3 percent in 2023, police said, mirroring a continuing return to lower pre-pandemic crime levels ...

Overall violent crime and homicides are down during Joe Biden’s presidency, according to official government measures through 2022 and a private-sector analysis of sampled data through 2023. Some ...

The FBI’s violent crime rate for 2022, the last year officially available, was 370 violent crimes per 100,000 population. Since 1972, only two years have had a lower violent crime rate: 2014 and 2019.

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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Holidays bring an increase in shoppers, both online and in stores, which leads to an increase in theft, robbery, burglary, assault and cyber crimes. Local police departments ...

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BROCKTON — Total crime in Brockton fell by a third from 2017 to 2024, according to the county's top law enforcement official. But, in both of those bookend years, the city had eight homicides. "While ...