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Deaths from motor vehicle crashes in the United States hit a 16-year-high in 2021. Nearly 43,000 U.S. residents were killed on the roads last year, marking a 10.5% increase from 2020. (These are the...
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Police departments across the country have faced rapidly shifting public sentiment in recent years. The 2020 murder of George Floyd by a police officer spawned large-scale protests and calls to...
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Traffic deaths are on the rise in the United States, according to a recent report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. An estimated 20,175 people were killed in motor vehicle...
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The FBI began to track firearms background checks in the late 1990s and report the statistics every month as part of its National Instant Criminal Background Check System. While gun background checks...
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Traffic fatalities spiked in the United States at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic and have continued to climb. According to a survey conducted by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, the trend...
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American roads have gotten deadlier since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there were 38,824 traffic fatalities in 2020 – the...
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2020 was a record-breaking year for gun violence in the United States. Driven in part by a 35% year-over-year increase in gun homicide, 45,222 people were killed with a firearm in the U.S. the year,...
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The debate over gun rights, gun regulations, and gun sales has raged for decades. The number of mass shootings that occur almost daily make these tragedies part of the American societal landscape....
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About 32 people were killed every day in drunk-driving crashes in 2020, a 14% increase from the previous year, according to the latest statistics from the National Highway Traffic Administration....
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Homicides surged in the U.S. by nearly 30% in 2020, the largest annual increase since record keeping began. The same year, U.S. firearm sales hit an all-time high of nearly 23 million, increasing 24%...
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Over halfway through the year, preliminary data from police departments in major cities around the country is beginning to trickle in. Across over 90 large or historically high-crime U.S. cities with...
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Preliminary data from 2022 suggests that murder cases may be declining in the United States. Based on reports from police departments in dozens of major U.S. cities, homicides are down by about 3.8%...
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An estimated 9,560 people were killed in motor vehicle crashes in the first three months of 2022, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. This is the highest first quarter...
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There has been a near 30% surge in homicides in the United States in 2020, the largest one-year increase ever recorded. Homicides increased once again in 2021, but by a smaller, 6% margin....
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There are millions of auto accidents across the U.S. each year. Over the last decade, there were more than 6 million auto accidents on average per year. While even minor bumps or scratches can be a...
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