Wilmington crime

Wilmington Police Department’s 2024 year-end crime report shows while overall shootings were down, murders were up.

Throughout the City of Wilmington, shooting incidents were down 58 percent in 2018 compared to 2017. There were 115 fewer shooting victims. And the number…

Wilmington’s new Police Chief Robert Tracy’s been on the job for a few months now, and in the past few weeks has held community listening sessions around…

The city of Wilmington will get some outside help to address its recent spike in gun violence. Mayor Mike Purzycki announced Operation Safe Streets – a…

A New Castle County grand jury indicted six people in five murder cases spanning 2010 to 2015 last week, in what state officials say could be their most…

The General Assembly's budget writing Joint Finance Committee (JFC) has approved a plan to use some banking crisis settlement funds to address a rising…

The Access to Justice Commission’s latest public hearing on access to fairness in the criminal justice system focused on policing strategiesA commission…

Attorney General Matt Denn and a number of community leaders are calling for state lawmakers to provide immediate funding to help quell the recent surge…

New Castle County councilman Jea Street is calling on the state’s congressional delegation and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to more seriously…

The Centers for Disease Control were set to release their report and findings about the epidemic of violent crime in Wilmington back in March. Now…