PHILADELPHIA — As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides and drops in other violent crimes compared to 2023.

Gun violence goes down as a result of that. My research center, the University of Chicago Crime Lab, we did a randomized trial with the City of New York a couple years ago where we helped put ...

Gun violence goes down as a result of that. My research center, the University of Chicago Crime Lab, we did a randomized trial with the City of New York a couple years ago where we helped put ...

Definitively convicting rapists is only possible thanks to one woman's efforts to create a forensic chain of evidence. A new book explores the rape kit and how we still fail survivors ...

The University of Chicago Crime Lab completed a similar analysis in 2021 that showed deployment levels decline during the weekend overnight time periods when shootings are most common. However ...

The first rape kits were given to hospitals in 1978. Chicago was the testing ground. According to a Tribune article from the ...

Gregory N. Jackson will serve as an adviser to the University of Chicago Crime Lab’s Community Violence Intervention Leadership Academy. He was deputy director of the White House Office of Gun ...

It was informed by University of Chicago Crime Lab research that found changes in police department management can cause large changes in violent crime rates and police use of force. Lt.

"Sub-areas" within neighborhoods like Chatham inspire a strong sense of pride, while in Englewood, neighbors are working to ...

One of our premier artifacts from that time period is the wall against which the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre occurred in ...