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A suspect in the beating death of a 70-year-old woman was arrested Thursday by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department SWAT team after barricading himself inside a home in Baldwin Park for several hours.

Data from the Metropolitan Police Department show that homicides in D.C. are at the highest rate since 2004.

Chicago has just concluded one of the most violent years in its history, with a massive increase in shooting incidents and homicides, Time magazine reports.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti denied Monday that cutting funds to the Los Angeles Police Department had led to a spike in homicides.

Homicides are on track to reach a level not seen in 50 years by the end of 2020 in Mayor Lyda Krewson’s (D) St. Louis.

Sen. Lindsey Graham said at a Senate hearing that without federal help, rioters would have destroyed the federal courthouse in Portland.

Trump is planning to send 150 federal agents to assist other federal law enforcement in Chicago, where homicide rates have soared.

The San Francisco Police Commission voted this week to require police stations throughout the city to display Black Lives Matter posters.

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds, after a period of stability between 2000 and 2007, the suicide rate among children and adolescents aged 10-24 increased 56 percent between 2007 and 2017.

Figures from the French judicial police reveal that the number of murders and attempted murders in the country has dramatically increased over the last ten years.

The number of babies aborted in New York City at or after 21 weeks of pregnancy outnumbered homicide victims in 2015.

Think Progress expressed shock on Twitter Friday night that the U.S. banned romaine lettuce rather than firearms this Thanksgiving season.

One in five adults in England and Wales experienced crime last year whilst London has hit its highest ever level of knife crime, according to statistics.

For the first time in 200 years, the number of homicides in London has surpassed the number in New York City, year to date.

Twenty-nine people were shot, one fatally, in gun-controlled Chicago in the 18 hours that began Saturday morning at 2:30 a.m.

After suffering its most dangerous year for decades, Chicago is already on track for an even worse year of bloodshed, murder, and crime as Tuesday counted seven dead in a single day. The victims included a pregnant woman.

The death toll from Chicago gun violence is so high that it is skewing national murder figures, making violence appear more ubiquitous than it actually is.

On October 22 The Telegraph published a map showing the U.S. leads the world in private firearm ownership but does not even crack the Top 10 when it comes to firearm-related deaths.

Homicides in gun-controlled Chicago so far this year are approaching 600 following another weekend of firearm-related death and mayhem.

There were “358 shooting victims” in gun-controlled Chicago in September, which helped bring the total number of shooting victims to over 3,200 year-to-date.

As of November 23, there had been 2703 shootings which resulted in 440 deaths year-to date in heavily gun-controlled Chicago.

On August 1, The Economist claimed America averages one mass shooting a day, and they countered the impulse to use a gun to defend oneself from mass shooters by suggesting “the impulse to self-defense… is natural, but mistaken.”

Police departments across the country that have spent years boasting about plummeting crime numbers are now scrambling to confront something many agencies have not seen in decades: more bloodshed.

On April 29 two men were shot and killed in Baltimore, and April 30 witnessed the shooting of five more, one of whom died.