To unpack the latest crime trends in Boston, the Globe analyzed data from the Massachusetts Crime Statistics dashboard. The chart below breaks down some of the most noteworthy trends since 2020.

BOSTON - Boston is a such a safe city that law ... The biggest upward trend in crime is shoplifting. Cox said it is up 30% and the main catalyst to a 6% increase in commercial burglaries.

With New Year's Eve around the corner, Boston city leaders are celebrating ... to police headquarters on Friday to discuss crime statistics from the past year. "Safety isn't just the absence ...

This map of Boston, showing violent crimes down to the ... In the new paper, researchers combined crime data with data on alcohol availability, drug markets and demographics from the census.

The Boston officials rejected the notion that homicides are concentrated in the so-called “murder triangle,” or a select few city neighborhoods that are said to have higher crime rates ...

Confronted with “more economic challenges than ever before,” Stop & Shop is calling on Congress to pass legislation to stop ...

Lumping these two statistics together results in a very inflated portrayal of the crime rate at the Boston campus. For example, only one robbery actually occurred on the Boston campus from 2006−08, ...

On an October afternoon in 1989, mobsters from Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts gathered at a modest home in Medford for a secret ritual: the induction of four soldiers into the New ...

provided safety statistics as a way to highlight that new immigrants coming to Boston have not increased violent crime rates. “We are the safest major city in the nation because we are safe for ...