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Explore verified public safety crime statistics and market research reports with sourced data and trend analysis.
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Costa Rica Crime Statistics
Costa Rica’s crime picture tightens in 2023 and still cuts deep with a safety index of 44.8 in San José, 145,678 reported crimes in 2022, and a homicide rate in the national spotlight at 16.6 per 100,000 in 2022. At the same time, law enforcement momentum is visible in 4,567 drug trafficking arrests in 2022 and Limón port cocaine seizures of 890 kg in 2023, setting up a sharp contrast between crackdown and the places where violence keeps resurfacing.
Serial Killer Statistics
Fewer than 1 in 100 murders by serial killers are solved at the very first homicide, even though capture attempts often hinge on witness tips and DNA can still crack cases about 30% of the time. The Radford FBI databases also point to the patterns that matter most, from an average US active period of 6.6 years since 2000 to strangulation in 55% of cases and victims who are overwhelmingly known to the killer before the attack.
Crime On College Campuses Statistics
Campus incidents are not just “isolated” or seasonal, with 2022 Clery Act reports including 15,472 burglaries nationwide and 8,994 violent crimes reported in 2021, spanning murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. The pattern shifts from Ohio State’s 2022 on campus rapes and weapon law violations to Harvard’s 2021 drug and housing burglary figures, while broader national rates on hate crimes and alcohol driven assaults reveal how quickly campus safety can change from policy to lived risk.
Gang Statistics
In 2021, gangs were tied to 13% of all US homicides, even as newer prevention models like Cure Violence and Focused Deterrence began showing measurable drops in shootings and gang homicides in major cities. This page connects the stakes to real costs, firearms risk, and incarceration burdens, with state and city snapshots such as California’s 18,000 plus gangs and Texas’s 12,000 reported in recent surveys.
Cryptocurrency Crime Statistics
Wallet compromise losses hit $1.2 billion in 2023, yet enforcement and policy targets are now trying to claw back far more by recovering billions in crypto linked proceeds each year. See how regulators and investigators from the FATF travel rule to UK Action Fraud and the FBI’s $5.6+ billion scam totals connect ransomware, mixers, mining malware, and fraud into one traceable crime picture.
Elder Fraud Statistics
In 2023, elders lost $3.4 billion to fraud as complaints climbed 11% from 2022, yet the losses skew hard toward women and high dollar investment traps that can hit far above $66,000 per victim. You will see which scams are gaining ground, who is most likely to be alone and targeted by impersonators and tech support schemes, and what federal and state enforcement managed to turn into convictions and judgments.
Check Fraud Statistics
More than half of check fraud begins long before a teller ever sees the check, with 41% of reports tied to social engineering for routing and account details. You will also see why modern controls matter as image based verification can cut altered check detection from hours to minutes and 98% of high value checks can be screened with positive pay when matching rules are set.
Drug Crime Statistics
Even with fewer drug offenders behind bars than a decade ago, the system is still absorbing them at scale. Track the 2022 overdose toll of 107,941 deaths and the ongoing mismatch where 65% of inmates meet substance use disorder medical criteria but only 11% receive treatment, alongside arrests, sentencing, and diversion trends that reveal why drug crime keeps reshaping US policing and courts.
Switzerland Crime Statistics
Swiss police data for 2023 paints a sharp split between cyber crime and street level offences, with 28,000 phishing attacks and CHF 120 million lost to credit card fraud, yet burglaries and vehicle theft both edging down. Follow how identity theft linked to breaches hit 9,800 cases and cannabis possession under 10g made up 85% of 24,500 offences, while serious assaults in 2023 fell 2% to 7,200.
British Crime Statistics
In England and Wales, fraud and cyber crime hit 3.5 million incidents and theft rose to 1,265,000 in the year ending March 2023 while vehicle theft reached 289,000, the highest since 2008 to 2009. From a 25% jump in rape to 580 homicides recorded and 20,000 knife enabled crimes in the West Midlands, the figures reveal a sharp shift in what forces are dealing with and where pressure is building.
Guns Saving Lives Statistics
Only 4.6% of US children live in homes where guns are secured with a safety device, yet 48% of gun-owning households keep a gun where it can be grabbed quickly, turning “access” into a measurable risk. This page connects safe storage choices to outcomes like fewer child injuries and emergency visits, including 48,830 firearm-related ER visits in the US and evidence that lock and safe interventions can raise proper storage by about 20 percentage points.
School Shooting Race Statistics
In the latest figures across multiple datasets through 2023, white students and injuries remain the most frequently recorded in school shooting outcomes, including Everytown’s 2018–2023 injury count where 1,210 of 2,100 were white and EdWeek’s 2023 report where 142 of 240 incidents involved white perpetrators. But as you compare fatalities, injuries, and perpetrator counts across sources, the mismatch between victim and attacker totals raises a difficult question about how race patterns shift depending on which database and time window you look at.
Youth Gun Violence Statistics
In 2022, guns killed more than 2,500 children and teens under 18, averaging over 7 deaths per day, while nonfatal ER visits climbed to 40,000+ for gun injuries. The page traces how these tolls concentrate in specific communities and circumstances, from Black youth bearing 62.5% of gun homicide victims in 2021 to homes with guns and youth with prior arrests dramatically raising risk.
Parking Lot Kidnapping Statistics
In 2023, NCMEC CyberTipline received 32 million reports, including 1,200-plus alleged attempted abductions in parking lots, where 42 percent happen at night from 6pm to 12am. You will see how nearby entrances and exits, CCTV aided clearances, and even the age and profile patterns of kidnappers reshape what “stranger kidnapping” looks like in real parking-lot scenarios.
Police Involved Shooting Statistics
In 2023, 1,164 people were killed by police gunfire, the highest annual total since tracking began in 2015, and 93% of those victims were judged to pose an immediate threat. The page also highlights stark mismatches by race and context, including Black people accounting for 27% of deaths from 2015 to 2022 while making up 13.6% of the population, and nearly two thirds of fatal shootings tied to traffic stops or pursuits.
Gun Violence Statistics
Even with growing attention to prevention, 2023 city-level reporting shows firearm homicides rising in at least one surveyed city in 40 states, alongside national healthcare burdens such as 2.0 million hospital and emergency department visits for firearm injuries in 2020. Scroll through the page to connect those impacts to costs, survival and treatment patterns, and the policy effects estimated to curb suicide and homicide.
Shootings In Schools Statistics
Shootings In Schools lays out how the numbers shift from what happens in a single day to what prevention looks like in real classrooms, including 10 mass shootings recorded on one day in 2023 and 19 school shootings reported in 2015. You will see the tension between rising firearm homicide trends for ages 0 to 19 and uneven evidence on security measures, plus what threat assessment and threat training are doing on the ground.
Drug Use In The Uk Statistics
Last year drug use in England and Wales reached 8.4% for adults aged 16 to 59, with cannabis at 6.6% and powder cocaine at 2.9% the highest since 2008 to 09, while cocaine overdose deaths rose 30% to 1,466 across the UK. The page also tracks how sharply risk shifts by age, gender and situation, from full time students with 24.1% cannabis use to unemployed men at 18.7% overall, and shows what that means for treatment, harm and waiting times.
Crimes By Race Statistics
In 2021 California data, Black people account for 28% of aggravated assault arrests and 24% of burglary arrests, but victim perception in 2020 NCVS shows 21% of aggravated assault offenders were perceived as Black, revealing a gap between arrests and what victims report. The page also tracks how Black homicide and robbery offending rates remain disproportionately high and how those shares shift by offense and state over time, including 2020 FBI SHRs and 2022 CDC findings.
Gun Deaths Statistics
In 2021, the US logged 48,830 gun related deaths, and the rate remains starkly out of step with peer high income countries, 14 times higher. You will see how the picture shifts by race, sex, age, and intent, from Black males with the highest homicide rate in their prime years to firearms driving 55% of suicides in 2021.