Crime and justice

I've just finished watching ESPN's fabulous O.J.: Made in America, a five-part documentary about the Hall of Fame football player. Somewhere in the process of digesting this latest — and,... Read more →

The recent murder of a young woman in Seoul's Gangnam district has prompted discussion about the treatment of women in South Korean society, including lingering gender inequality, harassment and even physical violence.... Read more →

Note: My family last year relocated to Seoul, where my wife is working as a foreign correspondent for NPR. This post is part of an occasional series profiling the peninsula’s demographics and... Read more →

More than 20 years after his blockbuster murder trial, O.J. Simpson is back in the news — this time after Los Angeles police reportedly found a knife on the grounds... Read more →

[caption id="attachment_1716" align="alignright" width="300"] Newly sworn in police officer Ashley Guindon, center, was killed responding to a 911 call on her first day working for the Prince William County (Va.)... Read more →

A car burglar last week nabbed a radio from our car, prompting me to think (once again) about crime in Washington, D.C., where I live. I wanted to know if... Read more →

The latest New York Times/CBS News poll shows support among Americans for stricter gun control laws: The massacre of children at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., appears to be... Read more →

More than 5 million guns were made in the United States in 2010, according to the latest data available from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, among... Read more →

Today I started playing with CartoDB, an online data mapping service that reminds me in some ways of both Google Fusion Tables and TileMill. To start, I grabbed a simple... Read more →

A few years ago, the great Niran Babalola and I dreamed up a news app that included all inmates and prison units in Texas. We built it because the state's... Read more →

Last week someone burglarized our car. Fortunately the burglar didn't get much, if anything, and a window wasn't smashed. (Someone left the door unlocked, apparently). But it was a reminder... Read more →

Does Washington, D.C., have more cops than other cities? That’s the question I asked myself the other day after watching a patrol car drive down our quiet, residential street. I see... Read more →

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HomicideWatch D.C. charted 2011 homicides late last month. This is a great batch of data, all hand collected by Laura and Chris Amico.  Read more →

The Los Angeles Times has released a nifty interactive map and table of the recent arson fires in the City of Angels:  Since the morn­ing of Dec. 30, a wave of... Read more →

The FBI today released its mid-year crime figures from large cities around the county, and the data are positive, NPR reports:  The number of violent crimes reported by 12,500 U.S. law enforcement... Read more →