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Data sources disagree on basic comparisons of violent-crime rates by race once you move beyond raw arrest counts: FBI arrest data show Black people are overrepresented among arrests for many violent o...
Crime statistics in U.S. data show different measures (arrests, offenders, victimization, incarceration) and none in the provided sources say a single race “commits the most crime” in an absolute mora...
Federal and state data cited in 2024–2025 analyses paint a mixed picture: , while federal compilations show many noncitizens with criminal histories dispersed across states, especially in populous “sa...
The strongest peer-reviewed comparison comes from a 2020 paper in the that used arrest records to compare criminality across , legal immigrants, and U.S.-born residents and reported substantially lowe...
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...
The best available empirical evidence shows that undocumented (illegal) immigrants do not commit more crime than native-born citizens and, in many high-quality studies, commit substantially less: arre...
From the 2010s into the 2020s, U.S. mass shootings with clear links to white supremacist or neo‑Nazi ideology include high‑profile attacks such as the 2015 Charleston church massacre, the 2018 Tree of...
Independent analyses and reporting show different ways to measure custody: by raw counts, by deaths per year, or by deaths per detainee over an administration; those choices change the headline. Raw d...
Across multiple national and state studies, —both lawful and unauthorized—are found to commit fewer crimes and have lower incarceration rates than residents; large-sample research using arrest records...
The best-supported count in the reporting provided is that while in custody during the administration (2009–2017), a figure reported by the , , the and cited across multiple outlets . That tally comes...
Researchers compare between immigrants and residents by combining administrative crime records (arrests, convictions, incarcerations) with population estimates of undocumented people, using multiple c...