According to a new national poll, approximately half of Americans now say crime is an “extremely” or “very” serious problem.

Violent crime was already trending down from a covid-era spike when President Donald Trump presented a picture of unbridled crime in America on the campaign trail in 2024. Now his administration has ...

When Donald Trump vowed this month to send National Guard troops into American cities beyond Washington D.C. to crack down on crime, the easy response was to dismiss it as political theater or a move ...

No country provides more opportunities for upward mobility than the United States. The “American Dream” is real, but many Americans can’t achieve their full potential because their neighborhood is ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Keith Humphreys, professor at Stanford, about the falling prison population in the U.S., and the reasons behind that trend. For much of modern history, the U.S. has held ...

As President Donald Trump looks to crack down on crime within Washington, D.C., by sending in federal law enforcement to patrol the city, data reveals the nation’s capital is plagued by violent crime ...

A woman named Holly from Cincinnati was recently knocked unconscious by a sucker punch at a jazz festival. The attack was caught on video. I had the misfortune of watching it. Perhaps you did too. The ...

So Donald Trump says crime in the nation’s capital is out of control: “Roving gangs of youth,” and the like. After declaring a public safety emergency, he invoked Section 740 of the District of ...

Donald Trump claims Washington, D.C., needs the National Guard to get crime under control. Every time he says it, the same argument flares up: who's to blame for crime in America's cities? Progressive ...