A Texas election worker punched in the face. Boxes of ballots in Washington and Oregon set on fire, sending hundreds of votes up in smoke. A Florida teenager wielding a machete at people lined up to ...

Hoping to curb New York’s ever-worsening retail crime challenges, state lawmakers last week passed a bill requiring many retailers to install panic buttons in their ...

A software glitch is delaying a plan to expand the use of panic buttons for medical or safety emergencies to all Wake County Public School System schools. The Rave Panic Button pilot program ran from ...

While apps made dating easier, Tinder is now trying to make dating safer. Its app, responsible for approximately 1 million dates a week, now has a panic button in case dates turn dangerous, its parent ...

Remember when New York believed in the “Broken Windows” theory — the idea that addressing minor crimes could prevent major ones? Or when stop-and-frisk was the NYPD’s (controversial) tool of choice ...