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Byline: Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY After seeing years of decline in violent crime, several major American cities experienced a dramatic surge in homicides during the first half of this year. [...]

Byline: Swati Sharma Imagine working for the police in Honduras, the country with the highest per-capita murder rate in the world. In a place that doesn't have an outright war [...]

Byline: Mark Guarino With sex-trafficking cases on the rise in the United States, a just-concluded week-long sweep of truck stops, casinos, the Internet, and other places identified as likely spots [...]

Byline: Niki Tsongas, Mike Turner A pervasive cultural flaw is plaguing our armed forces. The Department of Defense's 'Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military' for fiscal year 2013, [...]

Byline: Margaret Harding Aug. 11--A surge in killings this summer has frustrated local officials, police and community leaders who are searching for ways to stop the violence. There have been [...]

Byline: Rick Jervis Homes are being built better. Neighborhoods are repopulating. Schools are improving. But one ingredient of recovery here continues to elude city leaders: stopping murders. Stories of street [...]

Last fall, after 21 years at the Oakland Police Department, Sgt. Robert Glock was fired for dishonesty. About a month later, in an action that infuriated officials in the department, [...]

By all means, condemn the hateful rhetoric that has poured so much poison into our political discourse. The crazies don't kill in a vacuum, and the vilest of our political [...]

WASHINGTON -- Killings of homeless people have risen to their highest level in a decade, with 43 people killed last year and many more injured in often brutal attacks that [...]

Byline: Laura Bly and Gene Sloan This week's gang-related shooting of a 14-year-old cruise passenger on tour in St. Thomas -- an act the U.S. Virgin Islands' congressional delegate called [...]