Lobbyists and lawmakers everywhere like to make bold-but-reality-challenged claims to advance legislation. But in its push to legalize...

By: William J. Bratton as seen in the NY Daily News One of the foundations of New York City’s public safety renaissance is falling out of...

Broken Windows policing receives credit—rightly—for being part of the crime turnaround that saved New York and other cities. The theory,...

Joe Biden has been attacked by politicians on the left — and now, thanks to Donald Trump, on the right — for his role in shepherding the...

As part of this year’s budget bill, the Legislature has passed a measure that will greatly reduce the number of arrested persons for whom...

William J. Bratton is the former police commissioner of New York, Los Angeles — and Boston — who became famous for implementing the...

Law-abiding residents of high-crime neighborhoods keep proving George Kelling right and most of his colleagues wrong. Kelling, 83, died...

George L. Kelling, a criminologist whose “broken windows” theory, conceived with James Q. Wilson, revolutionized policing in America by...

The city could get a taste of the bad old days if a series of looming legislative changes aren’t handled properly, NYPD Commissioner...

He’s getting to write his wrong. A Brooklyn gangbanger got busted with a loaded, stolen revolver in a caught-on-video incident — but a...

The decision Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Parole Board to set free onetime domestic terrorist Judith Clark decades ahead of schedule...

Massachusetts police say they are seeing a thriving underground marijuana market, which is booming four months after the launch of legal...

The drone that buzzed Fenway Park is a “wake-up call” to Congress to regulate the unmanned aircraft before there’s a tragedy, two former...

Michael Cammarata and his girlfriend were charged Friday with the murder of Cammarata’s estranged wife Jeanine after the schoolteacher’s...

By Bill Bratton, as seen in the Daily Mail. There has been much discussion recently among British politicians and police officials...

Over the last quarter of a century, the United States has seen historic drops in crime—most famously in New York. These gains, once...

When East Dundee, a tiny suburb of Chicago, ordered body cameras for its 17 police officers, Terry Mee, the police chief at the time,...

Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger will retire in April after 15 years running the 1,300-officer force during which he...

Crime is down in every category in Los Angeles and homicides are at their second lowest in more than 50 years, the city's mayor and...