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In 37% of the encounters, the subjects who were injured or killed were Black. Across the state, Black people make up less than 12% of the population, according to the U.S. Census.
After rising for a decade, hate crimes declined about 2.7% in 2024. More than 3,260 incidents were reported across 42 major cities.
According to FBI statistics, of the over 113,000 hate crimes since 1991, 55% were motivated by racial bias, 17% by religious bias, 14% sexual orientation bias, 14% ethnicity bias, and 1% disability bias. [11] [14] Although not necessarily on the same scale as Matthew Shepard's murder, violent incidences against gays and lesbians occur frequently.
In the United States, use of deadly force by police has been a high-profile and contentious issue. [1] In 2022, 1,096 people were killed by police shootings according to The Washington Post, [2] while according to the "Mapping Police Violence" (MPV) project, 1,176 people were killed by police in total.
An article written by Emily Drew In Critical Studies in Media Communication journal published in 2011 reviewed data from the interviews of 31 reporters from 28 major newspapers across the U.S. [13] Each major newspaper had at one time published a series of articles covering race relations lasting from one month to a year. Throughout the ...
The rate of assaults on American law enforcement reached a 10-year high in 2023, with more than 79,000 officer attacks reported, according to a new FBI report released Tuesday. The report analyzes ...
Based on that data, the law mandated law enforcement agencies to submit a report to the law enforcement agencies' governing body beginning March 1, 2003, and each year thereafter no later than March 1. The law is found in the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure beginning with Article 2.131. [26]
The most recent statistics from the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford in 2019 show that people born outside of the UK made up 14% of the UK's population or 9.5 million people. Black Britons make up 3% of the population and Indian Britons occupy 2.3% of the population with the remainder being largely EU or North American migrants.