The 2025 national homicide rate might be the lowest recorded in the U.S. since 1900.

Even cities with understaffed police departments have made record gains.

Policymakers should continue to focus not on the so-called "root causes" of crime but on the proximate cause of crime — ...

Homicide rates have undergone the most striking change, with some of the nation’s 52 largest cities recording the fewest ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The police chief in the nation's capital pressured subordinates to manipulate department data to artificially lower the city's crime rates, according to a report by a Republican-led ...

Crime fell across much of the U.S. in 2025 — in the Midwest, the South, the Northeast and the West, in big cities and small towns, and in red and blue states. The number of murders saw a huge drop — ...