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In 2025 early data and reconstructions show the same core patterns as 2024: perpetrators are overwhelmingly male, younger age groups account for a disproportionate share of arrests and victimizations ...
A review of the supplied reporting finds no documented, high-profile criminal case since 2005 that resulted in a proven, court-adjudicated link between Freemasonry and organized stalking or harassment...
NCANDS and NIBRS are national, voluntary reporting systems that collect child‑abuse and crime data used in federal reports, but both have structural limits that complicate direct racial‑group comparis...
Data from multiple sources show Black Americans are over‑represented in arrest and homicide statistics relative to their share of the U.S. population: for example, Black people were about 12.2–13% of ...
Available federal sentencing and academic research shows immigrants as a group are incarcerated at lower rates than U.S.-born people and make up a minority of those sentenced in federal courts in 2024...
The claim mixes several empirical points that appear across the sources: Black people are about 13–14% of the U.S. population and are reported in many datasets as a larger share of certain violent-cri...
Reported-rape cases in U.S. law enforcement data produce , with commonly cited figures clustering around two different interpretations: about according to FBI clearance rates in recent years, while ot...
Available federal data show that a large share of federally sentenced non‑U.S. citizens were classified as “illegal aliens” — the U.S. Sentencing Commission reported 88.7% of federally sentenced non‑U...
The latest available Office for National Statistics (ONS) and UK government compilations show that most homicide victims in England and Wales remain White (71.4% in year ending March 2023) while Black...
Over the last three decades homicide victimization rates have fallen from the high levels of the early 1990s, but have remained large and persistent: Black and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) po...
Available reporting shows that the racial composition of known homicide offenders in 2015 differed from later years: FBI Expanded Homicide data for 2015 reported that when offender race was known, 53....
FBI and related federal reporting show persistent racial disparities in homicide statistics: several sources report higher homicide victimization and offender shares among Black Americans compared wit...
Available sources indicate that gender influences patterns of victimization but effects vary by crime type: multiple sources report women are more likely victims of fraud and other non-violent crimes ...
Donald Trump’s second-term clemency actions include mass pardons of roughly 1,500–1,600 people tied to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and dozens of high‑profile individual pardons and commutations — bringi...
The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Criminal Victimization, 2023 release reports overall nonfatal violent victimization rates for 2023 and some demographic breakdowns but . Historical BJS analyses show ...