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

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.

Gun violence goes down as a result of that. My research center, the University of Chicago Crime Lab, we did a randomized trial with the City of New York a couple years ago where we helped put ...

From the streets of Green Bay just a few weeks ago, to the hands of skilled chemists this month, before DEA agents can win the war on drugs, first, they need to know what they’re fighting.

But there must also be a deeper problem, too, since we see similar challenges even in top private schools that already compete for students — such as the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools ...

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 ...

It is located at Argonne National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory affiliated with the University of Chicago. Scientists can apply to use the supercomputer to perform ...

Gun violence goes down as a result of that. My research center, the University of Chicago Crime Lab, we did a randomized trial with the City of New York a couple years ago where we helped put ...

"Sub-areas" within neighborhoods like Chatham inspire a strong sense of pride, while in Englewood, neighbors are working to ...

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 ...