ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (March 26, 2025) — The Poynter Institute is proud to announce the newsrooms selected for the 2025 cohort of Transforming Local Crime Reporting into Public Safety Journalism, led ...

Santa Monica Police Department reported a 2% decrease in serious Part I crimes in 2024 while Part II crimes increased 16%, according to the department's annual report presented to the City Council on ...

Collage of Getty Images featuring the three Mayors on the frontline of America’s Crime Rate Reduction : (1) Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin/Getty Images, (2) Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson/Getty ...

Crime news has been a fixture of journalism for centuries. The true crime genre, from documentaries to podcasts to YouTube channels to TikTok explainers, has boomed over the last decade. And news ...