National Crime

We decided to measure exactly how the locations of crime have been changing in a city such as Los Angeles. It is surely something people have felt was happening, but it seemed useful to actually measure the size of the change. We teamed up with James Varney at Real Clear Investigations to put this piece [...]

Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigations about the large systematic errors in the FBI’s count of armed civilians who have stopped what otherwise would have been mass public shootings. Read more...

It is pretty simple to compare the number of crimes reported to police to the estimated number of violent crimes recorded in the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Over the five years from 2015 to 2019, the NCVS indicates that there were 28,172,040 violent crimes, but the FBI Uniform Crime Report only shows that 6,111,194 were [...]

A 24-year-old woman was struck and killed by an out-of-control car in a street "takeover" in Los Angeles, California, and police said others were likely seriously injured in the crash caught on video. The harrowing incident unfolded on Christmas Day at the intersection of Florence Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard at about 9 p.m. Read more...

A Georgia man's attempt to rob a business in the early hours of Christmas morning went awry when employees fended off the suspect, sending him slipping on ice and hitting his head on the ground, according to the Gainesville Police Department.  Luis Sajbocho-Ordonez, 30, is now facing armed robbery and aggravated assault charges.  Read more...

Federal prosecutors have charged two men with allegedly taking part in a spree of swatting attacks against over a dozen owners of compromised Amazon Ring home security cameras. The hackers made fake emergency calls, then used the compromised Amazon doorbells to taunt responding police. Read more...

A woman was charged with murder after she tracked down a man who stole her car and got into a gunfight that led to the death of two men and another one injured, police said. The alarming incident unfolded at a Speedie gas station in St. Louis, Missouri, on Wednesday at about 10:30 p.m. Read [...]

An elderly woman was able to fight off an armed man on a teal-colored bicycle who tried to rob her on her morning walk on Christmas, California police said. The showdown unfolded very early on Christmas morning as the unidentified woman took a walk in her Westminster neighborhood at about 3 a.m. Read more...

For many, the blizzard that recently struck Buffalo, burying the city in 43 inches of snow and leaving tens of thousands without power, meant tragedy, particularly for the families of the 27 who perished in freezing whiteout conditions. For others, the wicked storm has meant opportunity. Stores have been ransacked, businesses looted, and homes burgled [...]

A stalker who attached three tracking devices to a woman's car has been arrested after tracking them to a police station where she had turned them in as evidence. Carl Shawver, 63, used Apple AirTags to track a woman he claimed to Iowa cops was his wife - even though the two had never been [...]