Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Violent crime in Newark fell 19% in 2025, with the number of murders hitting yet another historic low of 31 as of Tuesday, despite ...

The most recent Major Cities Chiefs Association survey – made up of preliminary statistics compiled from 67 law enforcement agencies in the US and Canada – shows homicides dropped about 19% last year ...

The “difficult to see” videos show the fatal shooting of Wali Bey, a lifelong Essex County resident and father of two children.

Last week, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka reported a 19% drop in crime and an all-time low in the murder rate while announcing the city’s 2025 crime figures at the city’s police academy. But for some, those ...

Crime in Newark is on the decline, according to new data from the city’s 2025 end of year crime statistics. Officials said that despite a deadly mass shooting in the city in November, homicides had ...

Newark had the nation’s third-highest homicide rate – topped only by Detroit and New Orleans – in 2013 when homicide struck 112 out of the city’s 279,000 residents. But violence and trauma in the ...

The state Senate’s Judiciary Committee has passed a bipartisan bill that could create a new crime of political violence and establish an independent review board, the bill’s sponsors announced on Dec.