Crime
Who buys the guns that are used in crimes? A closer look at the buyers
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Police & Law Enforcement
From 2017 to 2021, the federal government traced approximately 1% of submitted PMFs to their original purchasers.
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Cities are using crisis teams to connect people with mental illnesses to long-term resources and decrease police brutality.
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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.
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Northeastern states have the lowest crime rates, while states in the South and West have the most crime
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Southern states spend the least per inmate and have some of the highest prison incarceration rates in the nation.
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In 2021, Transportation Security Administration officers seized more guns at Atlanta's Hartfield-Jackson International Airport than any other airport.
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Traffic fatalities reached a 16-year-high in 2021, but deaths per miles driven continue to drop.
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Officer deaths increased 29% in 2021. Yet the profession is still not among the deadliest.
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Expedited releases and a decrease in arrests helped drive a 25% decline in jail populations in 2020.
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More than eight out of every 10 youth offenders are arrested again within five years of release.
