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U.S. criminal justice data
Available sources do not provide a nationwide, authoritative breakdown of crime rates by race per capita; major datasets in the search results (FBI, Council on Criminal Justice, state compilations) re...
Data from U.S. surveys show lesbian women report higher lifetime rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) than heterosexual women in several large studies — for example, the CDC’s NISVS/related summar...
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...
Black Americans experience much higher homicide victimization rates than White Americans in recent U.S. data: for 2023 CDC-based counts and rates cited by the Violence Policy Center, Black homicide vi...
Research reviewed by multiple organizations shows that lesbian women and other LGBTQ+ people experience intimate partner violence (IPV) at rates that are heterosexual populations, though estimates and...
The most recent published compilations indicate the U.S. saw roughly , with organizations estimating ; independent count and classification differences mean the exact rape total varies by source . Fed...
National surveys and official reports show a mixed picture for 2024: Bureau of Justice Statistics’ NCVS counted about 6.08 million violent incidents in 2024 and records victimizations across racial gr...
FBI-collected data and secondary summaries show persistent per-capita disparities in arrests and violent-offender counts by race: several sources report Black Americans arrested at roughly 2–3 times t...
Official 2024 national datasets show crime remains measured in two different ways: the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program reported over 14 million offenses submitted to its program and produc...
Available sources show Black Americans are disproportionately represented in many arrest, victimization and homicide statistics, but scholars disagree about why those disparities exist and emphasize s...
Available federal and research sources show Black Americans suffer far higher homicide victimization rates than White Americans: for 2023 the Black homicide victimization rate is reported as 26.6 per ...
Data sources disagree on basic comparisons of violent-crime rates by race once you move beyond raw arrest counts: FBI arrest data show Black people are overrepresented among arrests for many violent o...
The question asking “what percent of crimes are committed by Blacks compared to Whites in 2025” cannot be answered with a single reliable percentage because , and authoritative datasets cited here cov...
Crime statistics in U.S. data show different measures (arrests, offenders, victimization, incarceration) and none in the provided sources say a single race “commits the most crime” in an absolute mora...
Federal reporting and recent research show persistent racial disparities in U.S. homicide victimization and offending: Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) data finds the Black homicide victimization ra...
FBI arrest counts for 2023 show more White than Black arrestees in absolute numbers for many violent offenses (e.g., BeautifyData reports 375,359 violent-crime arrests in 2023 with ~200.87K White and ...
The claim that the FBI’s official statistics show dramatically higher rates of Black-perpetrated violent crime against whites than the reverse ; federal datasets indicate that most violent victimizati...
The FBI's primary public portal for crime-by-demographic data is the Crime Data Explorer (CDE), which collects Uniform Crime Report (UCR) submissions but often lacks complete ethnicity detail and does...
Available reporting shows Black people are disproportionately represented in many FBI arrest categories (for example, making up large shares of murder and robbery arrests) while victimization surveys ...
Data from recent reporting and research show clear racial disparities in U.S. homicide victimization and offending: in 2023 FBI counts reported higher absolute numbers of white offenders than Black of...