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Available reporting shows violent crime and homicides that rose around 2020–2021 have fallen in 2023–2025, with several city- and national-level data series recording substantial declines (examples: m...
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 ...
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...
Portland recorded a , led by a reported 51% fall in homicides and a 17% drop in overall violent crime according to the Major Cities Chiefs Association midyear report, which ranked Portland as the larg...
The most widely reported tally from the period following George Floyd’s killing is that in the early weeks of the summer 2020 protests, a figure compiled and publicized by the Major Cities Chiefs Asso...
Estimates of law-enforcement injuries during the George Floyd protests vary widely because no single federal tally exists; major industry reporting and police agencies put the number anywhere from sev...
Sanctuary policies are local or state limits on cooperating with federal immigration enforcement; advocates say they protect immigrant communities, improve public safety and local economies, while cri...
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...
Chicago’s 2025 midyear violent-crime numbers place it below New York and Los Angeles on a per‑capita violent‑crime measure but still among the larger U.S. cities in absolute counts; the Major Cities C...
Official and media analyses show violent crime in many U.S. border communities fell in 2024 and early 2025 even as federal enforcement actions and encounters plunged: the 11 border communities studied...
Big-city violent crime rose sharply in 2020 and — according to multiple data analysts and organizations cited here — has fallen since then, with notable year‑over‑year declines by 2023–2025 in many la...
Washington, D.C.’s homicide counts in 2025 declined from 2024 and through mid‑year were falling slightly faster than peer cities on average: the Council on Criminal Justice reports DC’s homicide rate ...
Across reporting in 2025, homicide rates have fallen sharply in many large U.S. cities — often by double digits year‑over‑year — but the comparison between a “city proper” and its broader metropolitan...
Washington, D.C.’s homicide count and rate fell in 2025 compared with 2024: the Council on Criminal Justice reports D.C.’s homicide rate dropped 19% in Jan–June 2025 versus the same period in 2024, an...
The total number of arrests during the 2020 George Floyd protests is disputed across contemporaneous tallies and later law‑enforcement aggregations, with depending on the reporting period and the agen...
Several reporting and research aggregates identify a handful of U.S. cities that saw the largest proportional drops in homicide from 2024 into 2025: Denver (about a 45% mid‑year decline), Chattanooga ...
Portland’s violence rate in 2025 is reported by multiple local and compilatory sources as declining sharply year‑over‑year, with city releases and a Major Cities Chiefs dataset citing sizable drops in...
Across disparate city reports and law‑enforcement tallies, the most commonly reported injuries to police during the 2020 George Floyd protests were blunt‑force trauma — cuts, contusions and head injur...
At least a dozen to several dozen people died in connection with the 2020 protests and unrest across many U.S. cities; early counts in June 2020 ranged from "at least 12" to "19" deaths in the immedia...
Portland’s 2025 approach mixes expanded police “missions” and data-driven directed patrols with growing investment in community violence-prevention programs such as Portland Ceasefire and the Service ...