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 ...
CNN

The FBI releases crime stats months after the fact. This new crime tracker is trying to be more timely – and the FBI is too

In September 2024, the FBI released data with some retroactively good news: Violent crime declined across the US in 2023. Has that trend continued this year? The FBI’s preliminary information says yes ...
Reason

Preliminary FBI Data: Crime Steeply Declined in Early 2024

Violent crime in the U.S. dropped by a significant amount in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the previous year, according to the FBI's Quarterly Uniform Crime Report. The FBI data, which is ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Police and Victim Data Finally Agree That Crime Is Falling

After increasing in 2020 and 2021, violent crime as reported to and by police has been declining in the US. But does that truly mean violent crime — which in police statistics usually consists of ...
24/7 Wall St

States That Do Not Report Crime to the FBI

Murders surged by 30% in the United States in 2020, the largest single-year increase on record – and possibly the largest in U.S. history. The 2020 homicide figures were released in an annual FBI ...