What the data says about crime in the U.S.
Federal statistics show dramatic declines in U.S. violent and property crime rates since the early 1990s.
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Federal statistics show dramatic declines in U.S. violent and property crime rates since the early 1990s.
With Election Day approaching, here’s a closer look at voter attitudes on violent crime and an analysis of the nation’s violent crime rate.
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.
The U.S. murder rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020 – the largest single-year increase in more than a century.
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 public is more likely to have heard “a lot” about ongoing confrontations between police and protesters than several other stories.
The number of federal prisoners sentenced to more than a year behind bars decreased by 5% between 2017 and the end of 2019.
Donald Trump’s four-year tenure in the White House revealed extraordinary fissures in American society but left little doubt that he is a figure unlike any other in the nation’s history.
If one takeaway from the election is historic voter participation, another may be the political polarization that has come to define the U.S.
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