New survey reveals violent crime rose in major U.S. cities despite nationwide decline, with some areas reporting increases in ...

Anna Schecter is the senior coordinating producer for CBS News and Stations' Crime and Public Safety Unit, based in New York. Crime decreased in every category in 2024, including murder, violent crime ...

Aside from weather, more Americans get news about local crime than any other local news topic we asked about in our survey. Roughly three-quarters of U.S. adults (77%) say they often or sometimes get ...

Crime rates dropped across much of the U.S. in 2025. That was true for both property and violent crime. And it declined nearly everywhere: In big cities and small towns, and in red and blue states.

People consume a lot of local crime news, but they cannot find the news they need, according to a new study just released by Pew Research. Those gaps in coverage point to opportunities for local ...

Although local crime news is one of Americans’ most-followed local news topics, only a third of U.S. adults who get this type of news say they are extremely or very satisfied with its quality. This is ...

New syndicated strip "True Crime News" will feature breaking crime stories and evergreen unsolved cases that run the gamut of any topic Crime pays on the small screen. The art of crime solving – ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation quietly updated its 2022 crime data to show an increase in violent crimes, despite previous data showing violent crimes had fallen that year, which was touted as a ...

True crime is booming, and we sometimes view the genre as a harmless distraction, mere entertainment. That’s a mistake. The justice system is the core of our democracy, and our faith in it is ...

NPR rarely covers crime. That's because crime is mostly local and rarely of consequence to a national audience. But when the president of the United States ordered military troops to patrol the nation ...