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Rates of violent crime in cities across the United States
A simple one-to-one connection between the counties with the highest pre‑raid and the counties where recent raids concentrate cannot be established from the available reporting: the detailed trac anal...
and DHS have loudly framed recent raids as targeting the “worst of the worst,” but independent analyses and public datasets show most people arrested or held by ICE do not have U.S. criminal convictio...
’s District Attorneys General Conference report—released under a 2024 state law requiring annual collection of criminal charges against people “not lawfully present”—attributes more than 2,000 violent...
are concentrated in specific cities and metropolitan areas rather than spread evenly across whole states: , , and other large urban centers repeatedly show violent‑crime rates far above the national a...
and violent-crime rates across major cities fell substantially from the peaks through 2025, with analyses showing a 14% decline in homicides in the first half of 2025 versus the same period in 2019 an...