Five years ago, thanks to a federal program that distributes surplus military equipment to local police, Bridgeport acquired ...

Research suggests reducing crime depends less on a police department’s total budget than on how they choose to spend it. Aaron Chalfin, an assistant professor of criminology at the University of ...

By contrast, far fewer say those with family ties in the U.S. should be deported, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults conducted Feb. 24 to March 2, 2025. When it comes to law ...