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    John Gramlich

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    Q&A: Using Google search data to study public interest in the Flint water crisis
    Read an interview with Director of Journalism Research Amy Mitchell, who helped author the study.
    Many Americans haven’t heard of the House Freedom Caucus
    About four-in-ten adults say they have heard “nothing at all” about the Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative Republican lawmakers in the House.
    Immigration offenses make up a growing share of federal arrests
    Federal law enforcement agencies are making more arrests for immigration-related offenses and fewer arrests for other types of offenses – including drug, property and gun crimes – than they were a decade ago.
    Federal criminal prosecutions fall to lowest level in nearly two decades
    Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against 77,152 defendants in fiscal year 2016. That’s a decline of 25% since fiscal 2011.
    Most violent and property crimes in the U.S. go unsolved
    In 2015, 47% of the violent crimes and 35% of the property crimes tracked by the Bureau of Justice Statistics were reported to police.
    Younger Supreme Court appointees stay on the bench longer, but there are plenty of exceptions
    Justices who were younger than 45 when they took the oath of office served an average of 21.6 years on the court; those who were ages 45 to 49 served an average of 19.4 years.
    Most officers say the media treat police unfairly
    Among the challenges U.S. police officers perceive on the job is a widespread feeling that police are mistreated by the media.
    Obama used clemency power more often than any president since Truman
    Obama granted clemency to more people than any U.S. president in 64 years, but he also received far more requests than any president on record.
    Black and white officers see many key aspects of policing differently
    On some subjects, racial differences among the police are considerably more pronounced than they are among the public as a whole.
    Q&A: How Pew Research Center surveyed nearly 8,000 police officers
    Read an interview with Senior Editor Rich Morin and Senior Research Methodologist Andrew Mercer, who were involved in our groundbreaking police officer survey.
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