The nation’s capital recorded the highest murder rate since 1997 ... Marcus Ellis, Peace for DC’s executive director, attributes the drop-off in crime partially to Baltimore’s strong ...

The call comes amid a rise in murders in Ward 8 where violent crime rates are rising faster than ... off Suitland Parkway was in one of the highest crime areas of D.C. Ward 8’s 74 homicides ...

The drop is great for the city that battled the highest violent crime spike in the country last year. 2023’s violent crime increase of 39% from 2022 placed it above crime rate changes in all ...

Despite sharp decreases in overall crime this year ... Alaska and New Mexico have historically reported the highest motor vehicle theft rates, at 495 and 488 car thefts per 100,000 people ...

Metro riders have given the system its highest ratings in the past ... But more than a third of Metrorail riders rate the system negatively for safety from crime — about the same as a year ...

The 10 cities from the sample with the highest ... had a rate of 18.41. Finally, Denver rounds out the list, with the city witnessing robbery rates of 17.3 per 100,000 residents. Crime statistics ...