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Publicly available reporting and agency summaries do not provide a clean, authoritative year‑by‑year table of the number of from 2001 through 2026; instead, federal studies are periodic, nonprofit sum...
Child pornography is illegal in most countries, but laws, definitions, and enforcement vary widely: research cited in Wikipedia and NGO reports finds child pornography unlawful in a majority of states...
Mixing granular pool chlorine (calcium hypochlorite) with polyethylene‑glycol‑based brake fluid produces a vigorous, often explosive exothermic reaction that can produce a “fierce fireball”; laborator...
Available sources show that Black people are disproportionately represented in arrests and homicide statistics in the U.S.—for example, one summary notes Black people accounted for 26.6% of arrests ov...
Federal data that explicitly link criminal activity to immigration status exist, but they are fragmented: agencies (ICE, CBP) and some federal justice bodies (, ) collect and publish citizenship or “c...
Estimates of MS‑13’s U.S. membership vary by source: a Department of Justice fact sheet cited by USA Today says “over 10,000” MS‑13 members live in the United States , while multi‑year academic resear...
The NRA’s public opposition to stricter gun laws rests on three core claims: that many proposed measures infringe the Second Amendment and due process, that gun control fails to reduce crime and inste...
Available public data sources list city and state crime dashboards but do not publish neighborhood crime rates explicitly tied to demographic groups; Minneapolis crime maps and Minnesota crime statist...
Available data and multiple cross-country studies show the United States has substantially higher homicide and many violent‑crime rates than the European Union and most Western European countries; for...
Estimates of MS‑13 membership vary widely by source: a commonly cited U.S. estimate is “up to 10,000” members in the United States , while broader academic work has estimated the gang’s global members...
FBI UCR “Expanded Homicide” tables show that when victim race is known, Black victims have comprised a plurality of murder victims in multiple recent years—for example, 51.6% in 2014 and 53.3% in 2018...
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive percentage of people killed by police specifically during traffic stops; however, multiple datasets and analyses give partial figures and context....
Most U.S. research finds that the majority of violent victimizations are intraracial — victims and offenders tend to be the same race — though the share varies by offender race and type of offense, an...
Cold War U.S. policy in Latin America centered on stopping leftist movements and often meant the CIA backed coups, dictators and proxy forces — actions that scholars link to declines in democracy and ...
Crime in the United States is overwhelmingly same‑race: most violent crimes involve victims and offenders of the same race, and interracial violence is a minority of incidents (BJS and FBI reporting u...
State laws vary widely on when autopsies are required, who can order them, and who may access autopsy reports or death-investigation records: some states require autopsies for deaths in custody or sus...
Available reporting documents extensive and recurring , but it does not provide clear, sourced examples of U.S. federal, state, or local police departments that have formally hosted foreign military o...
Local, state and agency policies — not a single comprehensive federal rule — primarily govern when police may use tear gas and flash‑bangs, and those rules vary widely: some jurisdictions bar or limit...
Thirty U.S. states have enacted at least one law intended to address racial profiling by law enforcement, but those laws vary widely in scope, enforceability, and remedies — meaning the raw count over...
You usually cannot lawfully use force to resist an arrest; many states criminalize resisting or obstructing officers even if the arrestee believes the arrest is unlawful (see summaries at Justia and N...