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The L.A. region’s surge in arrests of noncriminals has been more dramatic than the U.S. as a whole: Arrests of immigrants with no criminal convictions climbed nationally from 57% in April to 69% in June.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2025

In some facilities, immigrants with criminal records were housed with noncriminals, the report said.

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2017

For instance, one study compared the cholesterol measurements of nearly 80,000 Swedes who’d enrolled in a health-screening project against police records and found that violent criminals had significantly lower cholesterol levels than noncriminals.

From Slate • Nov. 2, 2011

In a July 25 letter defending his strategy, Mr. Obama said that deportations of convicted criminals over all increased by 70 percent in 2010 over 2008, while the share of noncriminals among deportees was declining.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2011

But lots of violent men don't have the defective gene, while many noncriminals do.

From Time Magazine Archive