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Insights from Our Work

Sharing trends and analysis from NORC’s Live Crime Tracker, a real-time data dashboard for crime statistics in the nation’s largest cities. 

Live Crime Tracker Shows Continued Major Crime Declines in 2024

January 2025

Crime rates in major U.S. cities declined substantially in 2024, according to new data from NORC at the University of Chicago’s new Live Crime Tracker.

Q&A: Daniel Webster & John Roman on Filling the Crime Data Void

July 2024

Daniel Webster interviews John Roman about NORC’s landmark Live Crime Tracker, which offers real-time crime data from over 50 U.S. cities.

Live Crime Tracker Shows Major Crime Declines in First Half of 2024

July 2024

This brief leverages open data from NORC's Live Crime Tracker to find unprecedented declines in serious crimes in the first half of 2024 for a sample of large U.S. cities.