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Police departments across the US define violent crime in slightly different ways, but the data generally includes murder, robbery, assault and rape.
- Jake Horton
Jan 12, 2022 · And while many Americans know that 2020 was a particularly bloody year—with homicides surging 29 percent, with 77 percent of them involving firearms—few realize that gun violence has been rising...
Dec 30, 2020 · This year, many Americans have experienced significantly higher levels of violence both wrought on and within their communities.
Mar 6, 2023 · America’s entry into World War I temporarily quelled the violence—among other factors, some anarchists left the country to avoid the draft—but the respite was far from total.
May 26, 2022 · In the wake of mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas, a gun violence researcher shares what can be done to reduce gun violence deaths.
May 14, 2024 · Though the level of violence has fallen since the worst days of the pandemic, Americans are still shooting and killing one another more frequently than they did in the years before the...
Jan 18, 2022 · Why murders spiked. From 1991 to 2014, America’s murder rate plummeted by more than half. Experts still don’t agree on why that happened. Among the many possibilities: mass incarceration, changes...
