It was informed by University of Chicago Crime Lab research that found changes in police department management can cause large changes in violent crime rates and police use of force. Lt.

PHILADELPHIA — As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides and drops in other violent crimes compared to 2023.

“The presence of even one murder has a great cost,” said Kim Smith, the director of national programs at the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab. Violence interruption and intervention programs have ...

The first rape kits were given to hospitals in 1978. Chicago was the testing ground. According to a Tribune article from the ...

The DuPage County state's attorney announced Friday that it is dismissing charges in 19 cases involving defendants accused of driving under the influence of marijuana after faulty blood testing ...

The idea of the City of Memphis building and staffing its own crime lab was also brought up, which Nashville has already done. A study by the University of Memphis found it could take up to two ...

Pedro Lopes leads the Human-Computer Integration Lab at the University of Chicago. Inside the Human-Computer Integration Lab at the University of Chicago, you can find students working on a ...

The University of Chicago Crime Lab completed a similar analysis in 2021 that showed deployment levels decline during the weekend overnight time periods when shootings are most common. However ...

Prosecutors in the case against Bryan Kohberger, the man charged with killing four University of Idaho students ... related to the Idaho State Police crime lab, located in Meridian, could be ...

Building on the success of its previous cohorts, the Golub Capital Social Impact Lab announced the selection of eight ... Hosted by the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation at the University ...

A judge sentenced a former Northeastern University employee who staged a bomb ... and director of Northeastern’s Immersive Media Lab when he staged the bomb hoax. On the evening of Sept.