An active field of research that has received a lot of attention recently is the web scraping and summary of news stories on crimes. It has become difficult to weed out pertinent information and keep up with the most recent crime-related news due to the growing volume of data that is available online. In this review paper, we present a thorough analysis of the body of work on online scraping and summarizing news items about crimes. We start by talking about the different methods and equipment utilized for web scraping and data extraction. The approaches and summarizing algorithms used to create informative summaries of news items on crimes are then discussed. We also provide a critical assessment of the current methodologies, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages. Overall, this review paper offers a thorough summary of the challenges involved in online scraping and summarizing news items about crimes, and it might be an invaluable tool for researchers and practitioners in this subject.