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The number of reported homicides in the U.S. surged by a record-breaking 30% in 2020, topping 20,000 for the first time since 1995. When incidents of deadly violence jump, there is rarely only one cause. Crime rates in the United States are affected by a number of social and economic variables. According to the FBI, […]

The number of reported homicides in the U.S. surged by a record-breaking 30% in 2020, topping 20,000 for the first time since 1995. When incidents of deadly violence jump, there is rarely only one cause. Crime rates in the United States are affected by a number of social and economic variables. According to the FBI, […]

The Salt Lake City Division of the FBI issued a public service announcement encouraging people to report hate crimes after 2022 showed an increase in hate crime incident reports. Read more.

The Salt Lake City Division of the FBI issued a public service announcement encouraging people to report hate crimes after 2022 showed an increase in hate crime incident reports. Read more.

Ethics complaints, council infighting and residents’ protests against big development projects.

The homicide rate in the United States is expected to plummet nearly 13% compared to 2022, meaning more than 2,000 fewer homicide victims this year.

(NEW YORK) -- With 2023 ticking down, the nation is poised to finish the year with its biggest annual drop in homicides on record, according to preliminary data from law enforcement agencies both large and small. The homicide rate in the United States is expected to plummet nearly 13% compared to 2022, meaning more than

Mbbirdy/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- With 2023 ticking down, the nation is poised to finish the year with its biggest annual drop in homicides on record, according to preliminary data from law enforcement agencies both large and small. The homicide rate ...

Carlos Eduardo Espina, a law student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who received an active shooter alert after having just finished one of his last final exams of the semester. More than 630 mass shootings have occurred across the U.S. this year and one in six Americans say that they have personally witnessed a shooting. For Espina, being involved in a mass shooting was just a matter of when, not if, it would occur. Wednesday’s shooting at UNLV killed three people and left another cri...

Maya Berry, the executive director of the Arab American Institute (AAI), regarding the fact that, for decades, anti-Arab violence was omitted from hate crime data. According to the AAI, the FBI quietly removed the category from the Uniform Crime Reporting Program in 1992 and it remained missing until it was reintroduced in the 2015 report. While several states continued to track anti-Arab hate crimes separately from other groups, when that data was submitted to the federal database the numbers w...