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City and county seat of Alameda County, California, United States
There is no single authoritative count of “how many riots” occurred during Barack Obama’s presidency; reporting documents multiple high-profile episodes of civil unrest—Ferguson and Baltimore among th...
Neil Young is not alone in removing music from major streaming platforms; multiple artists and bands have withdrawn catalogs from services like Amazon Music and Spotify for reasons ranging from protes...
Since 2020, multiple high‑profile acts of right‑wing violence in the United States have converged into three prominent trends: , , and . Analyses compiled here identify the January 6, 2021, Capitol as...
Estimates of law-enforcement injuries during the George Floyd protests vary widely because no single federal tally exists; major industry reporting and police agencies put the number anywhere from sev...
Crime trends in 2024 show a national decline in violent and property crime according to FBI summaries cited in the analyses, but comparisons framed as “blue versus red states” are inconclusive because...
are documented in use across a spectrum of U.S. agencies — from federal law enforcement to city police departments and the military — and are governed unevenly through a mix of department policies, ma...
Multiple investigative reports and public records document instances where U.S. immigration authorities accessed license-plate data that flowed through systems not by a direct Flock– contract but by u...
The Black Panther Party (BPP), founded in Oakland in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, combined armed self-defense against police brutality with extensive community “survival programs” that serv...
There is no credible evidence that a wave of police officers were killed by protesters during the 2020 George Floyd demonstrations; fact‑checking organizations and contemporary reporting show a small ...
The available reporting shows for rioting charges in the U.S.; outcomes range from probation to multi-decade federal prison terms depending on charges, conduct, and jurisdiction. Recent cases illustra...
Ranked-choice voting (RCV) draws persistent criticism on several fronts: , , , and . Empirical studies and reports from multiple jurisdictions—New York City, Alaska, Maine, San Francisco, and others—d...
Between 2009 and 2017, several U.S. protests escalated into riots or violent unrest tied most often to police killings or controversial right-wing/white-supremacist mobilizations: the 2009 Oakland unr...
Between 2009 and 2017 multiple large protests escalated into riots in cities worldwide and in the United States; notable examples include the July 2009 Ürümqi unrest in China where an initially peacef...
Governor Gavin Newsom pushed a two-track criminal justice agenda in 2024–25: large investments in public-safety operations — including $267 million in grants to 55 communities and expanded California ...
Michigan’s Muslim population is reported differently across recent sources: , translating to roughly depending on methodology and year. The most rigorous survey-based estimate (PRRI’s 2022 data) place...
At least a dozen to several dozen people died in connection with the 2020 protests and unrest across many U.S. cities; early counts in June 2020 ranged from "at least 12" to "19" deaths in the immedia...
In 2025 the GS base pay received a 1.7% across‑the‑board increase and locality payments added an average of about 0.3%, producing an overall average raise of roughly 2% for most General Schedule emplo...
Portland’s violence rate in 2025 is reported by multiple local and compilatory sources as declining sharply year‑over‑year, with city releases and a Major Cities Chiefs dataset citing sizable drops in...
Video, reporting and court filings establish that federal agents fired at protesters and at least one pastor was struck during demonstrations outside ICE facilities in 2025; that prompted a federal ju...
ICE has recently expanded high-profile arrest operations in cities like Chicago and Oakland, drawing allegations of aggressive tactics and instances of force while the agency insists its officers use ...