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Marco della Cava and Mike Stucka USA TODAY NETWORK Mass shootings in Montana fell to zero in 2020 from two the year before, while nationally mass shootings jumped nearly 50% during a pandemic with crippling unemployment, violent protests and idle youth. In 2020, Montana reported zero mass shootings. A year earlier, the state had two mass shootings that killed five and injured four. With COVID-19 cases falling and vaccines rolling out, some criminologists hope a rebounding economy and reopened schools will drive down the national numbers in 2021. Early results are promising, says Mark Bryant, ...

The Oakland Police Department investigates a fatal shooting in the 1900 block of 84th Ave. in Oakland, Calif., on Oct. 14, 2020.Photo: Yalonda M. James/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty ImagesThe Oakland Police Department investigates a fatal shooting in the 1900 block of 84th Ave. in Oakland, Calif., on Oct. 14, 2020.Photo: Yalonda M. James/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images What Drove the Historically Large Murder Spike in 2020? The pandemic, police violence, and more guns all contributed to an unprecedented rise in murders across the United States. February 21 2021, 12:00 p....

Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood is rich and mostly white, but the same jump in violent crime that many cities are seeing has alarmed its residents. Some of them think secession is the answer.

Chicago Tribune | Dec 31, 2020 | News | 18 Lori Lightfoot's Chicago, FILE - (AP Photo/John O'Connor File) In a year marred by a deadly pandemic and rocked by civil unrest over policing in America, Chicago endured a level of violence in 2020 that reversed recent progress, with homicides increasing by more than 50%, according to official statistics. Through Sunday, Chicago had recorded 762 homicides this year, a 55% jump over the same period in 2019, when 491 people in the city were slain, according to official Chicago police data. It is among the highest year-over-year increases in recent ci...

The committee will identify candidates, conduct the first round of interviews, and send recommendations of finalists to President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83, who will appoint the new dean with the approval of the Board of Trustees.