Residents continued to shelter Thursday night as hundreds of heavily armed police and FBI agents searched for shooter Robert Card, an Army reservist authorities say fatally shot 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in the worst mass killing in state history…
Murders in the United States dropped just over 6 percent in 2022 compared with 2021, according to the F.B.I. Experts say preliminary data for 2023 indicates that the decline has accelerated this year…
With police departments across the country struggling to hire and retain officers, the Justice Department issued a new report this week with strategies aimed at helping law enforcement agencies grow their forces…
Guns are deeply ingrained in American society and the nation’s political debates…
Wednesday’s deadly shootings in Maine brought scrutiny to the relatively loose gun laws in the state, where Democratic lawmakers have unsuccessfully tried to pass tougher requirements in the past year despite controlling both chambers of the legislature…
A disproportionate number of people injured or killed by officers in San Jose are mentally ill or intoxicated from drugs or alcohol…
A judge this week reinstated all charges, including a murder count, against a former police officer who shot and killed a driver through a rolled-up car window in a confrontation police initially described as the officer shooting the driver after he lunged at him with a knife outside the car…
California has seen increases in some crime over the last decade, including notable jumps in homicides, auto theft, and most recently retail theft, as well as a slow gradual uptick in aggravated assaults…