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Racial Disparities in Homicide

Racial disparities in homicide rates in the US, with Black and American Indian/Alaska Native communities being disproportionately affected

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Jan 29, 2026
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What do peer‑reviewed studies say about comparative homicide and incarceration rates for undocumented immigrants?

Peer‑reviewed empirical studies and government‑funded analyses consistently find that have lower measured homicide arrest rates and lower than , and that increases in immigrant populations are not lin...

Jan 30, 2026

What percentage of homicides nationally are intraracial (same-race victim and offender) in recent years according to SHR or NIBRS?

Federal systems and the academic literature consistently show that the vast majority of murders in the are —victim and offender sharing the same race—but the sources provided here do not contain a sin...