According to the proposed ordinance, it would be "unlawful" for any person to stop, stand, or do anything to cause others to pause in those zones. The ordinance goes on to state that the measure is being proposed due to public safety concerns.

Tourists view the 15 pedestrian bridges towering over Las Vegas Boulevard as the perfect vantage point to get the perfect shot of the Las Vegas Strip. Law enforcement, instead, views them as safety concerns when not enough people are flowing in the walkway.

With the new Tourist Safety Institute at UNLV, students and faculty will be able to find more ways to develop safety strategies for the massive events this city is known for hosting.

With the new Tourist Safety Institute at UNLV, students and faculty will be able to find more ways to develop safety strategies for the massive events this city is known for hosting.

Progressive healthcare providers have begun to incorporate hospitality principles into their operations. This includes the design of more welcoming arrival environments and pre-registration.

The structure of our bail system separates people from their families, jobs and community before they may be convicted of a crime. We must assess the inadequacies of our existing bail system and its price for freedom before conviction. Bails should provide an opportunity for qualified individuals awaiting trial to return to their communities. Yet more often than not, excessive bail amounts result in the incarceration of our poorest residents.

In an NIJ podcast, LEADS Scholars from three police departments discuss how they worked with community organizations and used evidence-based policing to reduce gun violence

The criminology conference The Stockholm Criminology Symposium, which is organized annually by the Crime Prevention Council, is one of the foremost of its kind.

Crimes will be significantly fewer if you attack the criminal logistics. This is the opinion of the American criminologist Tamara Herold, who is on a temporary visit to Stockholm.

How do law-abiding people get caught up in dangerous group dynamics? Learn the sociology behind collective behavior and contagion theory.

Police agencies engaged in data-driven policing use data to identify and address patterns (e.g., in crime incidents and personnel behaviors). Data-driven policing improves strategic and tactical decision-making by enhancing agency capacity to detect problems and develop efficient and effective solutions to inform deployment and maximize the impact of limited departmental resources.

The cycle of police violence and protest in America has so often been told as a story of white officers killing Black men that three words — “Black lives matter” — stand as global shorthand.