Crime
Where are crime victimization rates higher: urban or rural areas?
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Police & Law Enforcement
The FBI defines an active shooter as an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area, but the definition of mass shooting is less clear.
Police & Law Enforcement
The federal government spent over $1.3 billion to clear the rape kit backlog since 2011, but a USAFacts analysis uncovered thousands of rape kits awaiting testing in 2022.
Police & Law Enforcement
The sources, gaps, and limitations of existing data on the national rape kit backlog.
Police & Law Enforcement
Black Americans saw a rise in police threats and nonfatal use of force in recent years.
Police & Law Enforcement
Black Americans and Hispanic Americans were the most likely to be searched or arrested at a traffic stop in 2020.
Police & Law Enforcement
From 2017 to 2021, the federal government traced approximately 1% of submitted PMFs to their original purchasers.
Police & Law Enforcement
Cities are using crisis teams to connect people with mental illnesses to long-term resources and decrease police brutality.
Police & Law Enforcement
Fleeing violence and poverty, thousands of migrants from Central and South America make the long and dangerous journey from Mexico to the United States every year. Hundreds perish in the process.
Police & Law Enforcement
Northeastern states have the lowest crime rates, while Southern and Western states have the highest.
Police & Law Enforcement
Southern states spend the least per inmate and have some of the highest prison incarceration rates in the nation.
