FBI announces US violent crime rate plummeted by fastest rate in nearly 90 years: 'Changes are working'

Violent crime fell across the United States in 2025 at rates not seen in close to a century, findings from the FBI showed.

US violent crime is at its lowest in more than a century – but the funding that helped reduce it is disappearing

A historic drop in violent crime, including the murder rate, is at risk after the cancellation of federal funding for ...

FBI reports largest drop in violent crime and murder since 1937 as homicides fall more than 18%

Violent crime fell sharply across the U.S. in 2025, with murders declining over 18% in the largest drop since 1937, according ...
Psychology Today

Violent Crime in Post-COVID America

Given the tone of network and cable news coverage, it might come as a surprise to learn that crime in the United States—including violent crime—has declined in the post-COVID era. According to FBI ...
CNN

What’s behind the ‘historic collapse’ in homicide and violent crime rates in major US cities

Rey Chavis knew it was life or death when his phone rang one day last summer. Chavis, a lifelong Newark, New Jersey, resident who runs The Newark Community Street Team – a group of violence ...
The New York Times

Trump Crime Strategy May Work for Now, but Not for Long, Experts Say

The president is looking to add troops to city streets while cutting funds for programs that work, experts and local officials say. But one idea, beautifying neighborhoods, has buy-in. By Tim Arango ...
The New York Times

Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington

Republican governors who have mustered National Guard troops for deployment in blue-state cities may re-examine their deployments if federal intervention significantly brings crime down. By David W.