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The methods and systems used for reporting and tracking crime, including the use of data and statistics.
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...
’s for calendar year 2024 is reported differently across outlets, but the city’s own summary and mainstream local reports put the count at roughly the mid‑500s — about 572 homicides in 2024 versus rou...
’s headline story for recent years has been a sustained drop in violent crime, with federal and local prosecutors calling 2024–2025 levels the lowest in roughly 30 years . That broadly positive trajec...
A growing body of empirical research finds that sanctuary policies do not increase crime and in many analyses are associated with either null or modestly improved public-safety measures, while they me...
’s recent data show measurable declines in many major crime categories through 2025, including a sharp drop in homicides from 399 in 2023 to 235 in 2025 according to local reporting, and city official...
The ’s National Incident-Based Reporting System () does not record the citizenship or immigration status of victims or offenders; it focuses on incident-, victim-, and arrestee-level attributes but ex...
The primary routes to obtain federal records are the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act, which allow requests for FBI files and identity-history summaries, while local police and st...
The available reporting and public documents show there is no single, universal code name for babies" used as a label across the Bureau; infants and children are handled through descriptive data field...