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The best publicly reported figures indicate UK police made roughly 12,000 arrests a year for “offensive” online communications (about “more than 30 arrests a day”) based on custody data compiled by Th...
Official reporting and independent analyses converge on the same headline: roughly 12,000 arrests a year in recent years have been linked to online communications in the UK, equivalent to about 30–33 ...
At least 138–174 law enforcement officers were reported injured in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, with dozens suffering concussions, traumatic brain injuries, cracked ribs, spinal da...
UK police have increasingly arrested people over social-media posts, with reporting that forces made “more than 30 arrests a day” (over 12,000 a year in 2023) for offensive online communications cited...
Arrests in the UK for social‑media posts have become a notable and contested trend: parliamentary and media reporting cite figures like “more than 30 arrests a day” (over 12,000 a year in 2023) while ...
There is no authoritative evidence in provided reporting that UK cities contain officially designated “no‑go zones” where police or outsiders are physically barred; mainstream UK outlets and local gov...
Officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, sustained a wide spectrum of injuries ranging from concussions and traumatic brain injuries to broken bones, lacerations, chemical exposure, ...
On January 6, 2021, the National Guard was to the U.S. Capitol; multiple timelines show requests and deliberations occurred before authorization, with the District of Columbia National Guard (DCNG) re...
London’s crime picture in 2025 is mixed: some headline measures—like homicides and several knife‑crime indicators—have fallen sharply, while other categories (notably theft and overall recorded offenc...
UK law allows arrests over social-media posts under several overlapping statutes: legacy “communications offences” (section 1 Malicious Communications Act 1988 and section 127 Communications Act 2003)...
Available reporting indicates two West Virginia National Guard members were shot near the White House on November 26, 2025 and were described by multiple officials as in “critical condition” after bei...
Recent Home Office police-recorded hate crime data for England and Wales show overall hate crimes rose modestly to 115,990 in the year ending March 2025 (excluding Metropolitan Police data), while oth...
Available reporting shows mixed signals: recorded race and religious hate crimes rose in recent Home Office data through 2023/24 and public perception of racism has increased (46% said racism is “some...
The evidence shows played organizing and planning roles for January 6: the permit applicant Women for America First misled authorities about marching plans, and extremist groups including the Oath Kee...
The most consistently reported figure is that during the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack; multiple post-event reports and Justice Department commentary cite this number while noting it likely und...
Approximately are reported as injured in sources covering the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol attack, with common tallies clustering around , though some government reviews count different subsets and re...
Violent crime in the UK since 2010 presents a mixed picture: homicide rates have generally fallen or stabilised at lower levels compared with earlier decades, while measures of non-lethal violent crim...
Tommy Robinson has posted a number of social-media messages that multiple organisations, victims’ groups and political commentators have publicly condemned as racist or Islamophobic — examples include...
Washington, D.C.’s crime picture in 2024 improved notably on several headline measures—, with sources reporting declines in the 30–35% range—yet the District’s per‑capita violent and overall crime rat...
The assembled sources consistently state that the White House grounds are protected by , with incidents showing those features can deter but not always prevent breaches . Reporting also documents use ...