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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...
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...
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...
Available public data sources list city and state crime dashboards but do not publish neighborhood crime rates explicitly tied to demographic groups; Minneapolis crime maps and Minnesota crime statist...
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 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’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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Federal plea deals in CSAM cases commonly include charge reductions or dropped counts, sentencing recommendations tied to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, and collateral conditions such as supervise...
Angle of incidence strongly influences whether a .30‑06 bullet will ricochet: shallow, glancing impacts make ricochet far more likely; near‑perpendicular impacts increase penetration and fragmentation...
The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system publishes homicide and offender data broken down by race through its Crime Data Explorer (CDE) and annual "Crime in the Nation" releases; the FBI reporte...
Watchdog groups, academics and government reviewers have compiled decades of reports documenting episodes and patterns of extremists—particularly white supremacists and militia affiliates—serving in U...
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...