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.
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In 2022, only 290 of 71,954 defendants in federal criminal cases – about 0.4% – went to trial and were acquitted.
Federal statistics show dramatic declines in U.S. violent and property crime rates since the early 1990s.
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.
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.
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.
Americans in 2022 find themselves in an environment that is at once greatly improved and frustratingly familiar.
Americans are closely divided over whether people convicted of crimes spend too much, too little or about the right amount of time in prison.
The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
For some governments, the debt incurred on COVID-19 relief will add to the considerable red ink already on their ledgers before the pandemic.
In 2019, 74% of Americans said they had a mostly positive view of doctors; 68% had a mostly favorable view of medical research scientists.
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