John Gramlich

Federal law enforcement agencies are making more arrests for immigration-related offenses and fewer arrests for other types of offenses – including drug, property and gun crimes – than they were a decade ago.

Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against 77,152 defendants in fiscal year 2016. That’s a decline of 25% since fiscal 2011.

Justices who were younger than 45 when they took the oath of office served an average of 21.6 years on the court; those who were ages 45 to 49 served an average of 19.4 years.

Among the challenges U.S. police officers perceive on the job is a widespread feeling that police are mistreated by the media.

On some subjects, racial differences among the police are considerably more pronounced than they are among the public as a whole.

Read an interview with Senior Editor Rich Morin and Senior Research Methodologist Andrew Mercer, who were involved in our groundbreaking police officer survey.

Obama is on pace to become the first president since Carter to leave the White House with a smaller federal prison population than when he took office.

At least four secretaries of state previously worked as top executives for large private-sector companies.

Just five states – Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas – accounted for all 20 executions in the U.S. in 2016.