Government-Crime

They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed

by J Oliver Conroy 5/3/25 The Guardian

Years before she became the peculiar central thread linking a double homicide in Pennsylvania, the fatal shooting of a federal agent in Vermont and the murder of an elderly landlord in California, a computer programmer bought a sailboat.

Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. — even if Americans don't believe it

by Karen Zamora,Ari Shapiro,Courtney Dorning 12/2/24 npr

The number of murders across the country surged by nearly 30% between 2019 and 2020, according to FBI statistics. The overall violent crime rate, which includes murder, assault, robbery and rape, inched up around 5% in the same period.