President Donald Trump has spent months crediting his immigration crackdown for a historic nationwide drop in violent crime.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homicides are down 21 percent from 2024 and 44 percent from a recent peak in 2021, according to the CCJ report, which analyzed ...

Data collected from 35 American cities showed a 21% decrease in the homicide rate from 2024 to 2025, translating to about 922 fewer homicides last year, according to a new report from the independent ...

July 23 (UPI) --Crime rates are on the decline in U.S. cities with the national homicide rate falling by 18%, inching closer to a historic low, the Council on Criminal Justice said Thursday. The ...

There has never been a time in U.S. history with a lower recorded rate of homicide (or murder) than what we just experienced in 2025. That’s according to a major new analysis of crime data from 40 ...

Homicide statistics rarely make headlines the way a single violent crime story does, yet the numbers behind them tell a much ...

Despite the widespread use of states of emergency, the increasingly militarized response to organized crime, and the growth of criminal economies, the murder rate in 2025 across Latin America and the ...

Experts say it has nothing to do with Republicans or Democrats.

Murders, overall violent crime and property crime are at their lowest rates in decades, but it’s unclear whether they are at record lows going back 125 years. See the sources for this fact-check ...