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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
The Conversation, 01.02.2026
The only remaining US-Russia nuclear treaty expires this week. Could a new arms race soon accelerate?
Tilman Ruff
EurekAlert!, 02.02.2026
One-third of young people are violent toward their parents
University of Zurich
New York Times, 02.02.2026
A Legal Tool for Holding ICE Agents to Account, Hiding in Plain Sight
Adam Liptak
The Conversation, 02.02.2026
Crime is no longer just a local issue – that’s why a national police force is needed
Estelle Marks
Newswise, 02.02.2026
Survey Finds Violence Widespread Across Texas, Often Missing From Official Crime Data
Tulane University
The Conversation, 03.02.2026
Certain brain injuries may be linked to violent crime – identifying them could help reveal how people make moral choices
Christopher M. Filley, Isaiah Kletenik, Patricia Churchland
The Guardian, 03.02.2026
The criminalizing of protest and dissent has a long history in America
Whitney Bauck
The Guardian, 03.02.2026
Never forget Epstein’s little helpers – the powerful men who knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway
Marina Hyde
New York Times, 03.02.2026
Pretti Shooting Thrusts Border Patrol’s History of Aggressive Tactics Into View
Eileen Sullivan and Jazmine Ulloa
The Guardian, 03.02.2026
‘Deepfakes spreading and more AI companions’: seven takeaways from the latest artificial intelligence safety report
Dan Milmo
The Globe and Mail, 04.02.2026
I study political violence and mass atrocities. What’s happening in the United States is a warning
Cheng Xu
The Conversation, 04.02.2026
‘Less lethal’ crowd-control weapons still cause harm – 2 physicians explain what they are and their health effects
Michele Heisler, Rohini J. Haar
The Conversation, 04.02.2026
Big tech companies are still failing to tackle child abuse material online
Joel Scanlan
Verfassungsblog, 04.02.2026
Why US Sovereign Bases in Greenland Would Violate International Law
Markus Gehring, Nasia Hadjigeorgiou
WUWM 89.7 FM, 04.02.2026
Do armed police make schools safer? Here's what the research says
Katherine Kokal
The Guardian, 05.02.2026
Italian investigated over claims he paid to shoot people during siege of Sarajevo
Angela Giuffrida
The Conversation, 05.02.2026
A terrorism label that comes before the facts can turn ‘domestic terrorism’ into a useless designation
Brian O'Neill
The Conversation, 05.02.2026
ICE pullback in Minneapolis shows the limits of Donald Trump’s scare tactics
Eli Lawrence
The Conversation, 05.02.2026
Victims have told us the worst of Epstein’s crimes for decades – and they are still being ignored
Lindsey Blumell
The Guardian, 05.02.2026
‘The children are not safe here’: the Nigerian couple fighting infanticide
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Institute of Race Relations, 05.02.2026
Pioneering research shines a spotlight on ‘police pursuit killings’
Race & Class Blog
The Conversation, 05.02.2026
Moltbook: AI bots use social network to create religions and deal digital drugs – but are some really humans in disguise?
David Reid
New York Times, 05.02.2026
Toronto Police Officers Are Charged in Sweeping Drug and Corruption Case
Vjosa Isai
Royal United Services Institute, 06.02.2026
Grok, Nudification and Addressing Online Harms to Women and Girls
Giles Herdale
New York Times, 07.02.2026
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
Ernesto Londoño
New York Times, 07.02.2026
Mexican Cartels Overwhelm Police With Ammunition Made for the U.S. Military
Ben Dooley, Isabella Cota and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega
The Guardian, 07.02.2026
The biggest threat facing Europe is not a Trump invasion. It’s his global political revolution
Mark Leonard
The Guardian, 07.02.2026
Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club
Amelia Gentleman
stuff.co.nz, 08.02.2026
Sexual abuse: FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show
MICHAEL R. SISAK, DAVID B. CARUSO and LARRY NEUMEISTER
TI INSIDE Online, 09.02.2026
AI in the prevention of financial crimes is still in its early stages, study indicates.
Newswise, 09.02.2026
Firearm Injury Survivors Face Long-Term Health Challenges
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
The Conversation, 09.02.2026
How the law can add to child sex trafficking victims’ existing trauma
Kate Price
The Guardian, 09.02.2026
Epstein was not ostracised for his crimes. To some powerful men, he became even more appealing
Moira Donegan
EurekAlert!, 10.02.2026
Perpetrators of intimate partner violence need prompt help
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
The Conversation, 10.02.2026
A new wave of romance scams is washing across the internet – here’s how to stay safe
Tony Jan
New Lines Magazine, 10.02.2026
Inside Operation Serengeti 2.0 and Africa’s War on Cybercrime
Isabel Ravenna
New Lines Magazine, 10.02.2026
Inside Operation Serengeti 2.0 and Africa’s War on Cybercrime
Isabel Ravenna
New York Times, 10.02.2026
Cartel’s Seized Ammunition Is Traced to U.S. Army Plant, Mexico Says
Emiliano Rodríguez Mega
The Conversation, 11.02.2026
Tumbler Ridge shootings highlight the need for mental health support for survivors and their community
Margaret McKinnon
The Conversation, 11.02.2026
What the troubling use of the term ‘ghettos’ reveals about Denmark’s attitude towards immigration
Garbi Schmidt
The Conversation, 11.02.2026
Toronto’s Project South charges point to systemic issues beyond police corruption
Tandeep Sidhu, Merissa Daborn
EurekAlert!, 11.02.2026
The most common causes of maternal death may surprise you
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
The Guardian, 11.02.2026
Rio’s bloodiest day: the untold story of Brazil’s most deadly police raid
Tom Phillips and Tiago Rogero
BBC News, 11.02.2026
TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app. Here's how to stop it
Thomas Germain
The Conversation, 11.02.2026
They escaped appalling conditions in scam factories. Now, they are living on the streets in Cambodia
Ivan Franceschini, Charlotte Setijadi, Ling Li
New York Times, 11.02.2026
How Hate Groups and Terrorists Use Gaming Platforms to Recruit Young Children
Pranav Baskar
The Guardian, 12.02.2026
Police visited home of Canada school shooting suspect multiple times over mental health concerns
Ashifa Kassam
The Conversation, 12.02.2026
How the 9/11 terrorist attacks shaped ICE’s immigration strategy
Pawan Dhingra
The Conversation, 12.02.2026
The war after the war: How violence is passed down through generations
Myriam Denov
EurekAlert!, 12.02.2026
Which childhood abuse survivors are at elevated risk of depression? New study provides important clues
McGill University
The Conversation, 12.02.2026
How to get away with mass murder: 4 tactics Ethiopia used to hide Tigray atrocities from the world
Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel
New York Times, 12.02.2026
The Epstein Files and the Hidden World of an Unaccountable Elite
Robert Draper
Newswise, 13.02.2026
Therapy During Detention Found to Be an Effective, Cost-Efficient Way to Reduce Violent Behavior Within Jail System
University of Notre Dame
Newswise, 13.02.2026
Therapy During Detention Found to Be an Effective, Cost-Efficient Way to Reduce Violent Behavior Within Jail System
University of Notre Dame
New York Times, 13.02.2026
‘They All Tried to Break Me’: Gisèle Pelicot Shares Her Story
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
The Guardian, 15.02.2026
Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core
Hannah Al-Othman and Geraldine McKelvie
The Conversation, 16.02.2026
More police and surveillance won’t prevent the next school tragedy
Beyhan Farhadi
Small Wars Journal, 16.02.2026
Mapping Weaponized Drone Attacks Attributed to Mexican Drug Cartels
Arizona State University
New York Times, 16.02.2026
Before Mass Killing, Mental Breakdowns and Online Violent Extremism
Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Aric Toler, Pranav Baskar, Malachy Browne, Amy Harmon and Vjosa Isai
The Conversation, 16.02.2026
Atrocities take place in democratic nations as well as autocratic ones – our database has logged them all
David Cingranelli, Skip Mark
The Conversation, 16.02.2026
A history of assassination reveals how ‘targeted killings’ became an extension of state power
Kevin Foster
The Guardian, 17.02.2026
A Hymn to Life by Gisèle Pelicot review – a unique memoir by a figure of astonishing power
Emma Brockes
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Gun Violence Solutions, 17.02.2026
A Community Approach to Saving Lives: Violence Reduction Councils
The Conversation, 17.02.2026
Why mass shootings can’t be reduced to a mental illness diagnosis
Samuel Freeze
The Guardian, 17.02.2026
‘Deliberate targeting of vital body parts’: X-rays taken after Iran protests expose extent of catastrophic injuries
Tess McClure and Deepa Parent
Business Insider, 17.02.2026
Epstein files: A list of people facing consequences over the DOJ's release
Jacob Shamsian , Kaja Whitehouse , Tom Carter , Lauren Edmonds , and Jacob Zinkula
Macdonald-Laurier Institute, 17.02.2026
Threat convergence – transnational organized crime, terrorism, and hybrid warfare
Calvin Chrustie and John Gilmour
The Conversation, 18.02.2026
Can we predict domestic homicide? New research suggests we can’t
Troy McEwan, Benjamin L Spivak, Michael Trood
University of York, 19.02.2026
Police need better coordination on mental health emergencies, study shows
The Conversation, 19.02.2026
Why has Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor been arrested, and what legal protections do the royal family have?
Francesca Jackson
The Guardian, 19.02.2026
Stripped of finery, detained by police as an ordinary citizen: now Andrew enters a whole new era – and Britain too
Simon Jenkins
EurekAlert!, 19.02.2026
Justice after trauma? Race, red tape keep sexual assault victims from compensation
University of Michigan
Newswise, 19.02.2026
As ICE Arrests Reach Record Highs, Percent with Criminal Record Plummets
University of Colorado Boulder
The Conversation, 19.02.2026
Nihilistic violent extremist networks recruit vulnerable people — and our youth need support
Kawser Ahmed
The Conversation, 19.02.2026
South Africa is sending in the army to fight crime (again). Does it ever work?
Guy Lamb
The Conversation, 19.02.2026
Should South Africa use the army to fight gangs? The short answer is no
Lindy Heinecken
The Conversation, 19.02.2026
How Putin turned Russia’s post-Soviet ‘national humiliation’ into military aggression in Ukraine
Gemma Ware Host
The Conversation, 19.02.2026
Russia tested NATO’s airspace 18 times in 2025 alone – a 200% surge that signals a dangerous shift
Frederic Lemieux
The Conversation, 20.02.2026
Australia’s masculine policing culture is failing women and children
Alex Simpson
Global Network on Extremism and Technology, 20.02.2026
Warning Behaviours for Right-Wing Violent Radicalisation on Online Platforms: Conceptual Challenges and Empirical Findings
Dr. Robert Pelzer, Tobias Weidmann and Sina Weickgenannt
The Conversation, 20.02.2026
Enforcing Prohibition with a massive new federal force of poorly trained agents didn’t go so well in the 1920s
Richard F. Hamm
Sciences Po, 20.02.2026
Murder of a far-right activist by antifas in Lyon: what mechanisms lead to political violence?
EurekAlert!, 20.02.2026
Study: Adolescent cannabis use linked to doubling risk of psychotic and bipolar disorders
Public Health Institute
The Guardian, 20.02.2026
A war foretold:how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them
Shaun Walker
The Guardian, 21.02.2026
Interview: Gisèle Pelicot on rape, courage and her ex-husband: ‘He was loved by everyone. That’s what is so terrifying’
Angelique Chrisafis
The Guardian, 22.02.2026
Met police using AI tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct
Robert Booth
The Conversation, 22.02.2026
How AI resurrects racist stereotypes and disinformation — and why fact-checking isn’t enough
Nadiya N. Ali
Russia Matters, 23.02.2026
Four Years Into Russia’s Invasion, Western Experts See Putin’s Aims Largely Unchanged, Prospects for Peace Dim
Jack Lennon, Angelina Flood
CBC, 23.02.2026
Domestic violence prevention would cost less than standard response: U of C report
Amir Said
EurekAlert!, 23.02.2026
Post-disaster prevalence of mental health problems can peak more than a decade later
Wolters Kluwer Health
The Conversation, 23.02.2026
Drug murders in France: how organised crime moves in and ruins communities
Felia Allum
The Conversation, 23.02.2026
Mandelson and the financial crash: why the Epstein allegations are so shocking
Stephen Barber
The Conversation, 23.02.2026
Mexico may pay a steep price for the killing of Jalisco cartel leader El Mencho
Raul Zepeda Gil
The Conversation, 24.02.2026
Violent aftermath of Mexico’s ‘El Mencho’ killing follows pattern of other high-profile cartel hits
Angélica Durán-Martínez
GLOBSEC, 24.02.2026
Update of Russia’s Crime-Terror Nexus: Criminality as a Tool of Hybrid Warfare
Kacper Rekawek
The Conversation, 24.02.2026
Why ICE’s body camera policies make the videos unlikely to improve accountability and transparency
Stephanie Lessing
The Conversation, 24.02.2026
Danger was flagged, but not reported: What the Tumbler Ridge tragedy reveals about Canada’s AI governance vacuum
Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon
The Conversation, 24.02.2026
When civil rights protesters are killed, some deaths – generally those of white people – resonate more
Aniko Bodroghkozy
The Conversation, 24.02.2026
‘I am the enemy of death’: Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir is a remarkable tale of survival
Catherine Kevin
BBC News, 25.02.2026
'Fear is everywhere': BBC reports from Mexican city turned into war zone by drug cartel feud
Quentin Sommerville
European Consortium for Political Research ECPR Blog, 25.02.2026
What political violence does to citizens
The Conversation, 25.02.2026
The Epstein revelations have exposed how ‘Boy’s Club’ elites avoid accountability
Dahlia Namian
EurekAlert!, 25.02.2026
FAIR GAME: project to protect children in online gaming environments
Universitat Jaume I
EurekAlert!, 25.02.2026
Stranger danger in the age of AI
University of Virginia School of Data Science
EurekAlert!, 25.02.2026
UC Irvine researchers expose critical security vulnerability in autonomous drones
University of California - Irvine
The Guardian, 25.02.2026
Meta’s AI sending ‘junk’ tips to DoJ, US child abuse investigators say
Katie McQue
New York Times, 25.02.2026
Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump
Mike Baker and Michael Gold
The Conversation, 26.02.2026
What the Jeffrey Epstein files reveal about how elites trade toxic gifts and favours
Hugh Gusterson
The Conversation, 26.02.2026
Understanding what motivates bullies could help tackle school violence
Kevin Zapata Celestino
New York Times, 26.02.2026
When Chatbots Are Used to Plan Violence, Is There a Duty to Warn?
Kashmir Hill
EurekAlert!, 27.02.2026
Crime scene blood stains can be damning – even after cleaning
Flinders University
The Conversation, 27.02.2026
Mexico is losing its battle with the cartels after years of flawed strategy
Amalendu Misra
ABC News, 28.02.2026
ICE agents said to have posed as police, a tactic some fear could erode trust in real cops
JAKE OFFENHARTZ
The Conversation, 28.02.2026
Iran will respond to US‑Israeli strikes as existential threats to the regime – because they are
Javed Ali
