Posted on 10/27/2026 8:07:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to criminal justice: the Biden-era emphasis on social justice versus the Trump administration’s embrace of traditional law and order. The results are now in.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported this morning that felony violent crime fell 25% in 2025. Rape declined 13%, robbery fell 27%, and aggravated assault dropped 31%. Property crime fell 19%. Except for rape, these are the largest one-year reductions recorded since data collection began 53 years ago.
The reductions followed substantial increases during the previous four years, when felony violent crime rose 59% and violent crime, including misdemeanor simple assault, increased 42%.
Murder also declined sharply last year. The U.S. recorded about 4.1 murders per 100,000 people in 2025, a record low, down from roughly 5.1 per 100,000 in 2024. The murder rate has continued to drop. If preliminary FBI data showing an additional 18.4% decline during the first seven months of 2026 hold for the full year, the murder rate would fall to approximately 3.36 per 100,000.
“We are witnessing a historic plunge in crime to levels never seen before in the United States,” Professor Carl Moody, a crime researcher at the College of William & Mary, told RealClearInvestigations. “As a result, we are all safer in our communities than we ever have been. We should all thank our law enforcement professionals.”
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I wonder what percentage of crime is committed by illegal immigrants.
I read somewhere that almost half of all federal prisoners were illegals.
The correlation is amazing.
Ann Coulter put that myth to rest:
"The Myth Of Low Immigrant Crime"
https://vdare.com/articles/ann-coulter-the-myth-of-low-immigrant-crime
I wonder if all of the crimes are being reported, especially in states run by Demonicrat kakistocrats.
Be suspicious.
BeijingBiden amended the reporting requirements on crime in order to favor blue cities. He changed the reqs so that you could decline to report at all, or you could re-classify a decades old type of crime from a sever felony to a misdemeanor. Your choice depending on who is running for office on a “fix crime” platform.
Check the data on individual cities. If there was an abrupt drop before DJT took office, the data was buggered. Remember the ballot counting plots in 2020 — the sudden jump in ballots after the sun went down? Look for that.
No way!
You mean if you deport illegal aliens that are criminal, actually prosecute people that commit crimes, and give them substantial sentences which makes them think twice about commiting more crime or simply keeps them off the streets, crime goes down?
Who could have ever thought that?
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Now my fear.
This country does not know moderation nor applies reason.
During prohibition we killed 10,000 - 15,000 people fighting that awful crime of drinking by POISONING alcohol. No kidding. No matter what it is, we tend to take things way to far. Fag bash in 1970, push sex changes on kids in 2010.
We are simply a nation that goes from one extreme to the next, chasing fads.
I hope we stay within practical limits.
Now the Left can justify impeaching Trump for stealing funds from the Demonrat party’s coffers.
Yes, they’ll use any and everything short of assassination. Oh, wait....
Professor Carl Moody at the College of William & Mary says “We should all thank our law enforcement professionals.”
Is there somebody else we should thank, Professor?
When I lived in Japan the extreme right wing ultranationalists claimed all crime was perpetrated by foreigners.
The government told me that was a lie.
When I lived in Japan the extreme right wing ultranationalists claimed all crime was perpetrated by foreigners.
The government told me that was a lie.
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