Slavery. Drugs. Weapons. Corruption. These are the hallmarks of transnational organized crime--a multi-billion-dollar industry that operates across borders, exploiting vulnerable people and ...

Stressing Chicago "desperately needs help" to tackle crime, President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on plans to deploy the National Guard to quell violence in the city - but stopped short of ...

Washington, D.C. should be a symbol of pride and patriotism for the American people — and a safe location for tourists, residents, and public servants. Unfortunately, while Fake News journalists and ...

Anna Schecter is the senior coordinating producer for CBS News and Stations' Crime and Public Safety Unit, based in New York. Crime decreased in every category in 2024, including murder, violent crime ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Endemic vagrancy, disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks have made our cities unsafe. The number of individuals living on the streets in the ...

In a city that has already seen nearly 500 youth gun arrests this year, a unique effort is underway to empower some of those young people to put their lives on a new path. CBS News' Michael George has ...

In a world where the U.S. federal government still executes incarcerated people, it’s easy to see the nation-state’s vicious obsession with the idea of “irredeemable criminality.” There are few places ...

According to new research published Tuesday by blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, a shadowy Cambodian holding company with ties to the highest levels of the country’s party-state has become the ...

An aerial view of high-rise hotels in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, a city that has reportedly become a hotbed of online scamming operations. According to recent estimates, the cyber-enabled fraud industry ...

Donald J. Trump is set to regain office without clarity on the scope of presidential immunity and with a lingering cloud over whether outside special counsels can investigate high-level wrongdoing. By ...

The arrest of an illegal immigrant for the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley a few weeks before President Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address ignited a political firestorm.