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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...
Reported cases in U.S. data sets concentrate geographically in large-population and travel-hub states—consistently naming , and among the highest in raw reports—while analyses that adjust for populati...
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 —...
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...
There is no authoritative figure in the provided reporting that answers “” because national datasets record offender race and socioeconomic indicators separately and rarely link homicide counts to a c...
FAIR's analysis of State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) data concluded that undocumented immigrants are incarcerated at much higher rates than citizens and lawfully present immigrants—findi...
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...
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...
Federal crime data show that, in many recent years and in the subset of homicides where the offender’s race is reported, Black or African American individuals have accounted for a larger share of know...
Advocacy reports and government records use different classification systems and sources to label : (DCRP/MCI/DCRA) rely on reporting forms, ICD coding, and agency submissions, while advocacy groups o...
The ) collects inmate-level and facility-level submissions from state and local jurisdictions via an online Grants Management System (GMS), requiring records for incarcerated noncitizens who meet narr...