The reported rate of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter in 2025 was the lowest since reliable national data began to be ...

A few years ago, experts worried about a "new normal" of elevated violent crime in the U.S. Now the country is flirting with ...

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 ...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, homicide rates have risen meaningfully in the United States. The annual number of reported homicides between 2014 and 2019 ranged from 15,775 to 19,393 ...

While many American cities are painted as bastions of murder, a new report has revealed that this is not actually the case. The U.S. logged a more than 20% drop in the homicide rate from 2024 to 2025, ...

President Donald Trump said Washington, D.C.’s homicide rate is higher than “the worst places on Earth.” At an Aug. 11 press conference announcing a federal government takeover of the district’s ...