"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 large U.S. cities by the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan think tank that tracked 13 specific types of major crimes in each of these locations."
"What they found was both a dramatic, nearly across-the-board reduction, and also a continuation of what was already happening widely across the country in every year since violent crime surged in the COVID-19 pandemic chaos of 2020-2021. The projected homicide rate of 4.0 per 100,000 residents-unconfirmed at the moment, as the FBI has not yet published its 2025 data-would be easily the lowest in recorded U.S. history."
"In order to justify actions such as the surge of immigration agents into specific (Democrat-led) U.S. cities, President Donald Trump and his legion of reality deniers have chosen from the start to depict the United States as a warzone of bloodshed, a "failed nation" at the mercy of criminal gangs and leniency for killers, etc. After all, it wouldn't make any sense for the President to be threatening the use of the Insurrection Act, or detaining random U.S. citizens without access to lawyers."
A Council on Criminal Justice analysis of crime data from 40 large U.S. cities tracked 13 major crime categories and found widespread declines. Violent crime has declined each year since the COVID-19 surge of 2020–2021, culminating in a projected 2025 homicide rate of 4.0 per 100,000 residents. That projected rate would be the lowest in recorded U.S. history, reaching back to 1900 and undercutting prior low points in the 2010s and 1950s. The political response from the Trump administration frames the country as a crisis zone to justify enforcement measures and exceptional actions.
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