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Among homicide victims in 2019 where the race was known, 54.7% were black or African-American, 42.3% were white, and 3.1% were of other races. Homicides with white victims and black offenders were more than 2.3 times more common than the opposite (566 vs 246).
Some 5,000 people from around the world converged on Dallas this week for the Crimes Against Children Conference. The one-of-a-kind conference aims at protecting the vulnerable and innocent.
The convictions were vacated in 2002 when Matias Reyes, a convicted rapist and murderer serving a life sentence for other crimes and whose DNA evidence confirmed his involvement in the rape, claimed after the statute of limitations had run that he had committed the crimes alone, a claim the Armstrong Report disagreed with.
For example, 3.03% of crimes committed against a young person were theft, while 20% of crimes committed against an elderly person were theft. [51] Bias motivation reports showed that of the 7,254 hate crimes reported in 2011, 47.7% (3,465) were motivated by race, with 72% (2,494) of race-motivated incidents being anti-black. [52]
Youth lockups in Texas remain beset by sexual abuse, excessive use of pepper spray and other mistreatment including the prolonged isolation of children in their cells, the Justice Department said ...
In the broader context of racism in the United States, mass racial violence in the United States consists of ethnic conflicts and race riots, along with such events as: Racially based communal conflicts between African Americans and White Americans which took place before the American Civil War, often in relation to attempted slave revolts, and ...
August 1, 2024 at 5:32 PM. By Sarah N. Lynch. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department found on Thursday that Texas has routinely violated the civil rights of juveniles at five of its ...
The 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers is the deadliest single incident for law enforcement officers in the U.S. since the September 11 attacks in 2001. On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed and fired upon a group of Dallas Police Department (DPD) and Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) officers, killing five officers and injuring ...