They didn’t attend a police academy, and their badges don’t say “detective,” but two managers are using science and data to help Nevada’s largest law enforcement agency solve every type of crime. The ...

When it comes to crime prevention, figuring out what works can take a lot of detective work. Today, some of that detective work is being made easier thanks to a new emphasis on data analysis in police ...

Can Latin America see greater success in reducing urban crime and violence by emphasizing data collection and analysis? InSight Crime takes a look at three such initiatives in the region. In Uruguay’s ...

Police officers sometimes feel like they’re playing Whac-A-Mole — they work to decrease illegal activity in a high-crime area, only to have it pop up somewhere else. This is how Joel Caplan, an ...

Commissioner Ronnell Higgins and Michael Mascari, the new chief data officer at the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection. Credit: mark pazniokas / ctmirror.org CT Mirror’s ...

The FBI publishes some of the most complete statistics, but no database can perfectly capture the nation’s crime.

Reports of drug busts have intensified in the news lately. With a Brickdam displaced and rising gun crime throughout the capital and beyond, what are citizens to make of these events? Seeing that ...

Source: Agency participation data compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Feb. 6, 2023, which was the deadline for local agencies to submit crime data for the Q4 2022 quarterly report.