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Available sources do not provide a nationwide, authoritative breakdown of crime rates by race per capita; major datasets in the search results (FBI, Council on Criminal Justice, state compilations) re...
Claims that in the each year are committed by undocumented (illegal) immigrants are not supported by available evidence: independent fact‑checking and peer analyses find no credible national count of ...
The available 2025 data indicate , with multiple local reports citing declines of roughly 19–25% and absolute homicide counts near the mid‑double digits, while national measures also show . Comparing ...
National surveys and official reports show a mixed picture for 2024: Bureau of Justice Statistics’ NCVS counted about 6.08 million violent incidents in 2024 and records victimizations across racial gr...
Official federal statements tie a measurable decline in certain violent crimes in the first half of 2025 to intensified ICE operations, but independent reporting and data analyses present mixed eviden...
Arrest data show more white people are arrested in absolute numbers, but Black people are disproportionately represented in many serious crimes and in victimization rates. For example, FBI tables repo...
Federal reporting and recent research show persistent racial disparities in U.S. homicide victimization and offending: Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) data finds the Black homicide victimization ra...
Available mid‑2025 reporting shows serious violent crimes declined in many U.S. cities: homicides were down about 14–21% in the first half of 2025 compared with earlier baselines in multiple analyses,...
The national homicide rate fell from 2024 to 2025 — by roughly one-fifth — with multiple real‑time data aggregators and crime analysts reporting a decline of about 17–20% year‑over‑year (RTCI/AH Datal...
Available reporting and academic analyses show no simple partisan map of per-capita crime: recent peer‑reviewed research found mayoral party affiliation has “no detectable effect” on crime, and multip...
The two federal products most likely to publish sexual‑assault statistics by race or ethnicity through 2024–2025 are the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system (now surfaced through the Crime Data...
Recent analyses from the and major news outlets report a sharp nationwide drop in murders in 2025 that “might be the since 1900,” a claim repeated in coverage by and ; historical series and government...
Washington, D.C.’s homicide total fell sharply from 274 deaths in 2023 to 187 in 2024 — a 32% drop — yielding a 2024 homicide rate reported around 27.3 per 100,000 residents (multiple sources report t...
Chicago’s homicide rate in recent federal reporting was about , placing it below several smaller Rust Belt and Southern cities but above many large cities; that could put the city on track for its low...
Nationwide, the weight of recent government and research data points to crime declining from the pandemic-era surge: violent crime and homicides rose sharply in 2020–2021, then fell in 2022 and again ...
A clear pattern in the supplied analyses shows that ; multiple recent data points indicate high murder rates in some Republican-led states and cities, while overall national homicide and violent crime...
Homicide rates per 100,000 in the U.S. have shown persistent and large racial disparities over roughly the last 20–30 years: Black and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations—especially youn...
Available city-level reporting shows homicide trends improving in 2025 compared with 2024: a mid‑year review of 30 major cities found a 17% drop in homicides (327 fewer) in the first half of 2025 vers...
Across multiple analyses, , with several data compilations and local dashboards describing historically low homicide counts through portions of 2025. That said, the picture is : some cities remain ele...
Contemporary analyses find homicide rates at or near their lowest levels in the era of modern record-keeping, and several recent reports argue murders are at a “” or the lowest since the early 1900s ;...