On the campaign trail, former President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that violent crime has "skyrocketed" since 2020. Vice President Kamala Harris has claimed that violent crime has declined to ...

City leaders tout falling property crime rates, but federal survey data shows most victims never report to police, raising questions about the narrative.

President Donald Trump is threatening to send the military to Chicago, calling the city a "killing field" and claiming violent crime is out of control. But data from the Chicago Police Department and ...

Violent crime increased under Joe Biden rather than decreasing as previously thought, revised figures from the FBI show. Thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults occurred in ...

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 ...

Staff Writer Crime has always been a subject of fascination. In colonial New England, pamphlets on murders were handed out, featuring recaps of crimes and trials, plus any last words criminals uttered ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Violent crime in the U.S. dropped in 2023, according to FBI statistics that show a continued trend downward after a coronavirus pandemic-era crime spike. Overall violent crime ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. Oakland’s crime rate, consistently higher than the Bay Area’s other big cities, has surged since the ...