Posted on 01/01/2026 7:04:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind
This year began with a deadly New Year's Day car-ramming terrorist attack in New Orleans and is finishing with a flurry of horrific shootings, including a mass shooting at Brown University, but 2025 is also poised to end with the largest one-year drop in U.S. homicides ever recorded, according to data from cities both large and small.
Based on a sampling of preliminary crime statistics from 550 U.S. law enforcement agencies, the year is expected to end with a roughly 20% decrease in homicides nationwide, Jeff Asher, a national crime analyst, told ABC News.
"So, even taking a conservative view, let's say its 17% or 16%, you're still looking at the largest one-year drop ever recorded in 2025," said Asher, co-founder of AH Datalytics and a former crime analyst for the CIA and the New Orleans Police Department.
Experts say crime levels appear "back to normal" after a pandemic surge.
The dramatic drop in homicides surpasses a 15% decline in 2024, which was then the largest decrease on record, according to Asher. In 2023, the number of homicides across the country fell 13% and 6% in 2022, according to the FBI.
The number of homicides nationwide is expected to be the lowest since the FBI began keeping such records in 1960, Asher said.
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Trump’s fault.
Impeach him....
My umbrella is positioned just like this:
Fantastic news that liberal media like ABC news dares to admit Trump’s massive success here! I’m a tad shocked...
Bravo Trump.
Between “Defund the Police “ and sucking up to illegal aliens, it used to be called cooking the books.
A rose by any other name...
Thank you, President Trump! Were illegals committing the murders that Americans didn’t?
Add the percentage drop in illegals this year to those stat pics....
Also in spite of blue areas releasing career/serial criminals as fast as they possibly can.
Looks like Cosette from Les Miserables.
National Guard.
Homicide rates have steadily declined in the US since the early 1990’s, with a small spike during the onset of Covid-19. The currently historically low homicide rates are not the work of any president or Congress, but related more to the increasing general age of our population.
Fewer young males has long been known to decrease the rates of homicide and other violent crimes.
The biggest one year drop in history had nothing to do with Trump deporting nearly 400,000 known criminals in our nation illegally or getting the FBI to crack down hard on several big dangerous blue cities? Sure, sure, whatever you say…
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