Tips and the F.B.I.

Civilian involvement is key to solving cases. It’s also amplifying the agency’s mistakes.

A Providence police officer takes down crime scene tape at Brown University. (Photo by the Boston Globe/Getty Images)

In mid-December 2025, a gunman opened fire at Brown University, killing two students and injuring nine more. Two days later, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was found shot to death at his home. A man suspe…