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A security officer who worked at two Manhattan hotels was arrested on Saturday and charged with setting eight fires at the hotels over four years.

Forty-eight percent of Americans blame the mental health system “a great deal” for mass shootings in the U.S., unchanged from January 2011, according to a new Gallup poll.

Three people, including a 3-year-old boy, are in critical condition Friday after an apparent gang-related shooting at a neighborhood basketball court in Chicago that left up to 13 people injured.

According to new crime statistics by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Chicago had more homicides in 2012 than any other city in the country.

Some judges at Cook County’s main criminal courthouse are refusing new security measures imposed by the sheriff, including mandatory trunk inspections. 

Efforts to crack down on copper theft suffered a setback in New Jersey with the surprise veto of a bill that would have required scrap dealers to keep records of their purchases.

The deadly shooting at Washington D.C.’s Navy Yard is promoting Senators to consider a fresh attempt to advance legislation strengthening background checks for gun buyers, Bloomberg reports.

Bus drivers in Detroit want better security after they say at least eight drivers were hospitalized after attacks by riders in the last nine months.

The number of violent crimes, however, increased 0.7 percent in 2012, with an estimated 1,214,462 violent crimes. 

Nearly one in three victims of identity fraud chose to avoid specific merchants after falling victim to fraud, according to the 5^th Annual LexisNexis True Cause of Fraud study, which found that between 10 and 14 million U.S. consumers are victims of identity fraud every year.