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Research across federal datasets and independent scholars shows that immigrants — including those in the country without authorization — are not more likely to commit crime than U.S.-born residents; m...
The balance of rigorous, peer‑reviewed research shows that undocumented immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S.-born citizens: multiple studies using arrest and incarceration records—most no...
Federal prosecutors filed 412 federal cyberstalking cases between 2010 and 2020, with filings rising to a peak of 80 cases in 2019 before a slight fall in 2020, illustrating growing federal attention ...
Academic and policy research in the provided reporting shows immigrants in the U.S. — including undocumented immigrants in many studies — generally have lower incarceration, arrest, and offending rate...
Available reporting and academic studies consistently find that immigrants — including unauthorized immigrants — commit crimes at lower rates than U.S.-born citizens; a Texas-based federal study found...
Multiple peer-reviewed and government-funded studies find that undocumented immigrants are not more likely to commit crimes per capita than U.S.-born citizens; several large analyses report lower arre...
Recent analyses give a mixed picture: . One media analysis places racial distribution roughly in line with population shares—53% White, 21% Black, and —but that figure comes from a single 2025 compila...
Research that adjusts crime or homicide rates for poverty, neighborhood, and related socioeconomic factors finds that disparities by race shrink but do not universally disappear: some studies report p...
Recent, multi-source analyses consistently show that immigrants — including undocumented immigrants — are arrested and incarcerated at lower rates than U.S.-born residents in the datasets examined, wi...
Available research and databases do not support a simple tally that attributes most U.S. mass shootings cleanly to either “right wing” or “left wing” actors; many mass shootings are non‑political, the...
Available sources in 2025 consistently show American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women face far higher rates of sexual violence than other U.S. racial groups: most estimates center on about 2.5 t...
Major recent studies and reviews show undocumented immigrants in the U.S. are arrested and incarcerated at lower rates than U.S.-born citizens: a Texas-based NIJ-funded analysis found undocumented peo...
There is no single authoritative count of “active right-wing extremist groups” in the United States; major datasets and government reports use different definitions, categories, and collection methods...
Estimates of how many men are raped vary widely by dataset and definition: some U.S. surveys find about 3% of men have experienced attempted or completed rape in their lifetimes (RAINN citing older NI...
Recent peer-reviewed and policy research from 2020–2025 consistently finds that immigrants — including undocumented immigrants in studies that can identify status — have lower arrest, conviction, and ...
Available federal and academic data do not produce a clear, state-by-state ranking of “illegal immigrant–related crimes” for 2024; U.S. Customs and Border Protection publishes counts of “criminal alie...
Recent research and government reviews present competing pictures of U.S. domestic terrorism: long-run empirical reviews and government summaries show far‑right extremists have produced more fatalitie...
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...
Multiple recent, peer-reviewed and government-linked analyses find that immigrants — including undocumented immigrants in Texas studies — have lower arrest, conviction and incarceration rates than U.S...
Available reporting and peer-reviewed analyses consistently find that undocumented immigrants in the U.S. are arrested and convicted at lower rates than native‑born Americans: an NIJ‑funded Texas stud...