There is a popular phrase about “lies, damned lies, and statistics.” The last of those three has become a particular favorite of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) as he tries to shed the soft-on-crime label he ...

Fed-up Californians rejected a decade of liberal criminal justice reform measures and their champions on Election Day due to disgust with the status quo, locals tell Fox News Digital. Voters ...

Voters in the Democratic-run state overwhelmingly approved a measure to impose harsher sentences for crimes and were on their way to ousting two progressive district attorneys. By Tim Arango Reporting ...

California recorded its second-lowest homicide rate since at least 1966 in 2024, as nearly every major crime category declined across the state, according to new data released by the California ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom released new statistics comparing crime rates from 2023 with those of 2024. According to an analysis of Real-Time Crime Index data by the Public Policy Institute of California, ...

Four years after nationwide calls for a reimagining of the criminal justice system, voters dramatically reversed course on Tuesday night. California voters passed Proposition 36, a tough-on-crime ...

California's retail theft rate has ticked up over the course of the past decade as changes to statewide laws, pandemic-era social standards and the retail environment have impacted crime trends. A new ...