“The presence of even one murder has a great cost,” said Kim Smith, the director of national programs at the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab. Violence interruption and intervention programs have ...

As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in ...

Information about homicides is released daily by the city of Chicago. The release of homicide victims’ names is delayed by two weeks to allow time for the victims’ families to be notified of a ...

according to a study from the University of Chicago Crime Lab. After city officials and police worked together, the city's Public Service Department increased trash cleanup and checked lights in ...

One of those killed in the attack was Kareem Badawi, a University of Alabama student. The school's president Stuart Bell confirmed the news in a statement posted on the school's website and shared ...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” on Feb. 24, 2022, University of Chicago Prof. Konstantin Sonin called the full-scale invasion of Ukraine “the end of ...

“We’re not in the clear by any means,” as Kim Smith, a director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab, put it. Chicago will always be vulnerable to unrelenting violence, unless we all do ...

according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. "Black Chicagoans are 20 times more likely than their white counterparts to be killed by a gun or to be a victim of a homicide. So, we often hear ...

A University of Georgia student was among the more than 30 people injured in a deadly New Year's Day attack on Bourbon Street, university President Jere W. Morehead confirmed Wednesday morning.

a director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab. “We can’t take for granted we’ll continue to experience decreases, especially after we had two historical increases.” But not all areas ...

a director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab. “We can’t take for granted we’ll continue to experience decreases, especially after we had two historical increases.” That’s why it’s ...