Insights
Our research on the subjects people ask about, written to last and revised as the records change. Each one says what the records can't answer, how the subject is recorded, and where the records are.
- Teen takeoversLarge gatherings of teenagers in public places, often organized on social media, that sometimes end in fights, vandalism, or shootings.Outline
- Immigrants and crimeWhether immigrants, including people in the country illegally, are arrested, convicted, or imprisoned at different rates.Outline
- Hate crimesCrimes where police record that the offender targeted the victim for race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or another trait.Outline
- Drunk drivingDriving while intoxicated, and the crashes and deaths it causes, including intoxication manslaughter.Outline
- LynchingsKillings by a mob outside the law, claiming to serve justice. Most victims on record were Black, and most were killed in the South between Reconstruction and the Second World War.Outline
- RobberyTaking property from a person by force or threat: a mugging, a holdup at a store counter, a carjacking. How often it happens, who gets robbed, and what the records can and can't say about who does it.
- Campus sexual assaultRape and other sexual assault at colleges and universities, including in fraternity and sorority houses, and what happens when it is reported.Outline
- PPP fraudFraud against the Paycheck Protection Program, the federal pandemic loan program for small businesses.Outline