short readsSep 13, 2023 Key facts about Americans and guns Six-in-ten U.S. adults say gun violence is a very big problem in the country today, up 9 percentage points from spring 2022.
short readsApr 26, 2023 What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S. More Americans died of gun-related injuries in 2021 than in any other year on record, according to the latest available statistics from the CDC.
short readsApr 6, 2023 Gun deaths among U.S. children and teens rose 50% in two years In 2021, there were 2,590 gun deaths among U.S. children and teens under the age of 18, up from 1,732 in 2019.
short readsAug 25, 2022 Republicans in Congress are about three times as likely as Democrats to indicate that they own a gun At least 110 representatives and senators in the current 117th Congress have publicly stated or otherwise confirmed that they own a gun.
short readsJul 27, 2022 U.S. school security procedures have become more widespread in recent years but are still unevenly adopted Here is a look at some of the most common school security measures and how the K-12 security landscape has changed in recent years.
short readsJun 14, 2023 Fewer than 1% of federal criminal defendants were acquitted in 2022 In 2022, only 290 of 71,954 defendants in federal criminal cases – about 0.4% – went to trial and were acquitted.
short readsMay 20, 2022 Safety concerns were top of mind for many Black Americans before Buffalo shooting 32% of Black adults said they worried every day or almost every day that they might be threatened or attacked because of their race or ethnicity.
short readsOct 27, 2021 What we know about the increase in U.S. murders in 2020 The U.S. murder rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020 – the largest single-year increase in more than a century.
short readsJun 16, 2021 Americans lost more years of life to COVID-19 in 2020 than to all accidents combined in a typical year In 2020 alone, the coronavirus was responsible for about 380,000 deaths and roughly 5.5 million years of lost life in the United States.
short readsMay 15, 2018 Rising share of U.S. primary schools have sworn officers on the premises An estimated 36% of U.S. public primary schools had sworn officers on site at least once a week in the 2015-16 school year, up from 21% a decade earlier.