Violent crime fell at a document fee in President Trump’s first yr again in workplace. It was the most important year-to-year decline because the Bureau started estimating crime traits in 1936, based on newly released FBI data.
Violent crime numbers decreased by 9.3% from 2024 to 2025.
The FBI reported:
The lower was broad. The estimated variety of violent crime offenses fell from 2024, with homicide and nonnegligent manslaughter down 18.1%, theft down 18.5%, rape down 7.6%, and aggravated assault down 7.2%.
The estimated homicide fee fell to 4.1 per 100,000 inhabitants—the identical fee recorded in 1955 and 1956 and the bottom because the FBI started retaining nationwide estimates.
FBI Director Kash Patel referred to as the decline a results of law enforcement businesses working collectively throughout jurisdictions.
“Collectively, regulation enforcement throughout the nation—state, native, Tribal, and federal—has delivered for the American individuals the most important discount in violent crime in U.S. historical past,” Patel said in an August 19, 2026, video message. “Violent crime, and also you’re speaking rape, theft, assault, all down double-digits throughout America.”
The numbers supply a putting reversal from the rise in violent crime seen throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
FBI Director and staunch Trump ally, Kash Patel, cheered the information on Monday.
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