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 ...

There's good news on crime prevention. Community programs in high-risk neighborhoods can plummet crime rates—without ...

Violent crime fell dramatically in 2025, in what experts expect to be the year with the sharpest drop in homicides in recorded history. The decline, detailed in two recent reports of major U.S. cities ...

President Donald Trump has been celebrating what he says is a major crime reduction achievement in the United States. Trump referred to the crime rate, an umbrella category that includes four types of ...