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The specific figure asked — how many Black people were killed by another Black person in a drive‑by in 2025 — is not available in the provided datasets or documents; no source among the materials revi...
The share of violent crime attributed to Black people depends on the measure used: arrest-based data from the FBI and compiled reporting show Black people account for roughly a quarter to a third of v...
Research that controls for age and income finds that racial and ethnic differences in crime rates shrink but do not universally disappear; studies show socioeconomic factors—poverty, unemployment, edu...
Official statistics show a vast gap between assaults and convictions: RAINN and related compilations estimate that for every 1,000 rapes only about 7 felony convictions occur, or — by other measures —...
Age is a dominant predictor of homicide risk: males aged roughly 15–44 — especially 15–24 — carry the highest homicide victimization and offending rates in U.S. data . Race and ethnicity show sharp di...
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...
AK-47–style rifles are in U.S. violent crime overall; the bulk of firearm crime is committed with handguns, while rifles of all types account for a small single-digit share of homicides and violent in...