crime

Art Cops

Arts, Culture & Media

Usually federal agents chase down stolen art. But on the third floor of the Los Angeles Police Department, Detective Don Hrycyk heads up the country’s only municipal art theft detail.

The Woodsman

Arts, Culture & Media

Busted

Arts, Culture & Media

Lee Israel

Arts, Culture & Media
Residents gather round the bodies of suspected drug traffickers in the City of God favela in Rio de Janeiro on Nov. 20.

Charts: Crime is getting even worse in post-Olympics Rio

Conflict
A fingerprint reader in action

This new 3-D printed glove can dupe fingerprint scanners

Technology

Designed to more accurately test fingerprint scanners, the glove is a boon for law enforcement — when it’s on the right hands.

South African Flag

South Africa’s murder rate rises to over 50 people killed per day

Conflict

South Africa’s murder rate rose by 4.9 percent in the last year, official statistics showed Friday, with the police minister admitting the country was struggling with “a prevalent culture of violence.”

Directors Frida Barkfors and Lasse Barkfors attend the "Pervert Park" Premiere during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2015 in Park City, Utah.

‘Pervert Park’ brings you inside Florida’s sex offenders camp

Justice

The Palace Mobile Home Park outside St. Petersburg, has been housing sex offenders for more than a decade and says no resident has ever been convicted of a new sex crime.

13 suspected members of the 18th street gang are presented to the media after being arrested by the police in Soyapango, El Salvador in March.

Salvadoran gangs use Facebook to track down victims

Conflict

Youth on the run from gangs in Central America are cautioned to check their social media settings.

Two workers holding a white body body bag as they place it in the back of a truck

Óscar Martínez on why El Salvador is a ‘good place to kill’

Justice

His first book was a deep look at the dangers of the journey to escape. ‘A History of Violence’ focuses on why people take the journey to begin with.