After several years of record homicides and other violent crime, Kansas City leaders now point to a decrease in homicides, ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) – Eight of Pitt County’s most violent, repeat criminals were given a chance to turn their lives around during the 4th Focused Deterrence call in Tuesday. Hundreds of community ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) – 9 On Your Side continues to follow a story it first reported at 10 on Eastern North Carolina’s CW. Police arrested Desmond Moore and Chinedum Ekwuribe for selling drugs out ...

Killings in Kansas City reached the highest level recorded during a single year in 2023, even as most major cities around the U.S. saw significant declines. There were 185 people killed in the city ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City is bringing back an old program known as focused deterrence to reduce homicides, hoping to see sustained improvements. "Everyone wants to do a rally, a prayer vigil,” ...

This week, for the first time in half a decade, we — the city, law enforcement, the Jackson County prosecutor’s office and community service providers — sat at the table with those driving Kansas City ...

Latest research highlights the benefits of focused deterrence as a successful strategy for supporting young people away from ...

ST. LOUIS — Within hours of winning the St. Louis Mayoral election, Tishaura Jones offered her opinion on why she believes crime is at record highs in the city. “One of the reasons why we have so much ...

Soon after he became Kansas City’s police chief in 2017, Rick Smith pulled officers away from a strategy credited with reducing homicides. The effort, called the Kansas City No Violence Alliance, or ...

Yanick Charette has received funding from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Université Laval provides funding as a founding partner of ...

By the time you’re reading this, I don’t know whether the casualties from the weekend’s back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton will have surpassed the 31 deaths tallied as I write. I do ...