The University of Chicago Crime Lab, a valuable resource the Chicago Police Department has used to analyze its policies and practices, is getting a new leader Monday.. Katie Hill, who previously ...

Officials at the University of Chicago Crime Lab's Policing Leadership Academy brought in members of storied improv theater ...

The University of Chicago Crime Lab's Policing Leadership Academy tackles some serious topics like how to make data-driven ...

The University of Chicago’s Policing Leadership Academy allowed Columbus Division of Police Commander Joe Curmode to learn ...

The University of Chicago Crime Lab, a research organization used by the Chicago Police Department, is shaking up its leadership team, including bringing on a public policy veteran. Katie Hill ...

Conventional wisdom about violence is wrong, Jens Ludwig, director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, says in “Unforgiving Places,” in which he looks at why Greater Grand Crossing has so ...

The department implemented a range of recommendations meant to improve its homicide investigations, but with no obvious ...

CHICAGO — Shootings and murders in Chicago so far this year are lower than they’ve been in six years. Other major categories of crime have dropped to their lowest level since 2021. It comes as ...

A Chicago criminologist challenges our assumptions about why most shootings happen—and what really makes a city safe.

But Black communities continue to feel the brunt of the violent crime, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. "Black Chicagoans are 20 times more likely than their white counterparts to ...