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Two different government data streams give different lenses: victim‑based surveys (NCVS) found that in 2018 about 52% of violent‑crime perpetrators were identified as White and about 29% as Black, whi...
Research does not support a simple claim that "homosexuals" commit sex crimes at higher rates; large recent studies show LGBT people are much more often victims of violent and sexual crimes than non‑L...
The two federal products most likely to publish sexual‑assault statistics by race or ethnicity through 2024–2025 are the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system (now surfaced through the Crime Data...
is the single clear exception among states: it requires the collection and retention of immigration status in its criminal booking and publishes related datasets, which researchers and policymakers ha...
Available reporting shows hundreds of thousands of people are identified as victims of rape or sexual assault in recent U.S. years — for example, a Statista chart (sourcing the Bureau of Justice Stati...
Available sources indicate that crime statistics and victimization surveys show a small portion of the population accounts for most recorded violent offending, but exact shares and causes are debated ...
Multiple recent studies from 2024–2025 converge on a clear finding: across several measures and time frames. These conclusions are supported by analyses using different datasets — the American Communi...
Victimization surveys and justice-system analyses converge on a grim reality: roughly are never reported to police — meaning reporting rates sit in the low 30% range and underreporting is about 65–70%...
The FBI collects racial data through its Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, primarily via the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and legacy Summary Reporting System, and publishes th...
The FBI’s 2023 and 2024 national UCR releases show overall estimated violent crime fell year-to-year: an estimated 3.0% decline in 2023 versus 2022 and further estimated decreases into 2024 (including...
An exact annual count of rapes that go unreported in the United States cannot be pin-pointed with precision, but multiple authoritative sources converge on the conclusion that , with common estimates ...
Official claims about how many women “report being raped” in the United States are inconsistent across studies and reporting systems: , and those that do emphasize underreporting and low prosecution r...
broken down by race are informative but imperfect: they mix real differences in victimization and offending with distortions introduced by , reporting choices, and measurement designs . Reliable inter...
Official statistics and academic studies show measurable differences in crime rates and criminal justice outcomes across racial and ethnic groups in the United States, with Black Americans often showi...
The FBI’s official public portal for arrest and crime data is the Crime Data Explorer (CDE) and the UCR/NIBRS collections; these are the primary places to get “official” counts and breakdowns of arres...
International data show widely varying crime levels across countries and regions, and some academic work dating to 1989–1990 found systematic differences in homicide and serious-violent crime rates be...
Official U.S. crime statistics by race are published primarily by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program (including the Crime Data Explorer and Table 43) and by the Department of Justice’s Bu...
The FBI compiles crime statistics for cities like Portland primarily through voluntary data submissions from local law enforcement into federal systems and by using victimization surveys, but . Recent...
There is no single, comprehensive dataset that neatly tracks nationwide; instead researchers stitch together state-level administrative records, federal enforcement tables, victimization surveys that ...
The publishes sexual‑assault-related data with race and ethnicity variables primarily through its program and the , with specific tables and NIBRS incident-level files offering race/ethnicity breakdow...