Over the last couple years, many cities in the U.S. have seen an increase in the number of homicides.

At least nine jurisdictions either plan to or have adopted the crime-reduction strategy known as ‘place network investigations’ — a model that examines geographic connections that allow crime to flourish.

U.S. News & World Report recognized 23 UNLV programs, including 13 from the William S. Boyd School of Law, in its annual list of top graduate and professional schools.

During the six hours Trent Leach was hiding in an abandoned church in downtown Las Vegas on Sept. 21, police said, he fired 20 rounds, striking a SWAT vehicle and the window of an occupied apartment.

The Metropolitan Police Department sent two robots to find Leach, a 4-by-4-foot that stood near the door recording and an 18-inch-long robot that scoured the floor below.

Village of Mamaroneck residents will soon notice more and more police officers wearing body cams, thanks in part to a substantial grant from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Finally! It’s been a crazy season on CSI: Vegas with the evidence seeming to pile up on the charges that David Hodges (Wallace Langham) was guilty of manufacturing false evidence on several of the cases he worked on when he was a CSI.

When tens of thousands of people are packed into a confined area like NRG Park, crowd surges of some form are to be expected, security industry experts say, and certain precautions should be implemented.

Proposition A, one of two local measures on the Nov. 2 ballot, asks Austinites if they want to set a minimum staffing ratio for the Austin Police Department: 2 police officers per 1,000 residents.

Daniel Holstein never thought his law enforcement career as a crime scene analyst for Metro Police would lead to a lengthy run working in television.

Actress Sarah Gilman has been preparing for her newest role seemingly all her life.

In the last couple of months, there have been a number of high-profile incidents of domestic abuse in the news.