crime statistics

It can be tough to put things into perspective when violent crimes dominate news headlines. According to the Pew Research Center, the...

Having a criminal record can severely impact your life by barring you from jobs and accolades, even years after a conviction. This...

Texas has an unenviable record for wrongful convictions. When a defendant is wrongfully jailed he or she is not the only one...

If you are convicted of a DWI in Texas you will face a massive financial headache. Recently TxDOT said on a billboard...

Texas is seeing a spike in crimes committed with imitation weapons, partly because offenders believe they will receive a lesser sentence if...

Dallas Police Chief David Brown has boasted in the past about historically low murder rates in the city. It’s a good news...

Arguments that a convicted killer who shot a city code officer dead in 2005, suffered from severe mental illness, failed to stop...

We often associate rising crime levels with big cities such as Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, but newly released statistics for 2015...

When the Dallas Morning News recently featured the case of Khristopher Hood it highlighted one of the most disturbing aspects of Texas’s...

Bite marks have been used for decades by forensic scientists in criminal cases to help establish the identity of offenders. But the...