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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...
Data from city, federal and independent analysts show violent crime in Washington, D.C., fell sharply through 2024–mid‑2025 (U.S. Attorney: violent crime down 35% in 2024) even as the Trump administra...
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...
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...
The available 2025 reporting shows compared with the same period in 2024, while nationally the U.S. homicide rate remains higher than many other developed countries when measured per 100,000 people . ...
’s headline story for recent years has been a sustained drop in violent crime, with federal and local prosecutors calling 2024–2025 levels the lowest in roughly 30 years . That broadly positive trajec...
For official, up‑to‑date monthly crime reports and homicide data for Washington, D.C., start with the Metropolitan Police Department’s public portals: the MPD / District Crime Data at a Glance and the...
The United States appears on track in 2025 for a substantial decline in homicides—analysts report year‑to‑date drops around 15–20% and samples of 30 cities show a 17% fall in the first half of the yea...
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 ...
Available reporting does not publish a single, final "official 2025 homicide count" for Washington, D.C., because counts are updated throughout the year by local agencies and summarized by multiple or...
fell sharply from the city’s 2023 peak and remained lower through 2024 and into 2025, with mid‑year 2025 counts notably below the same months in 2024 and far below the ; CCJ and /‑reported counts show...
Independent researchers find little firm evidence that the of federal agents or National Guard troops are the primary drivers of the ; instead, the best analyses point to broad, multi-year national tr...
Available 2025 reporting shows a in violent crime — driven most notably by a — with multiple independent samples and city reports indicating year‑over‑year decreases in homicides, shootings and severa...
Independent, public data streams that can corroborate Washington, D.C.’s 2025 homicide trends include the District’s own open crime incident feed and MPD summary dashboards, national aggregator estima...
A literal comparison of "murders in Washington, D.C. for 2024 and 2024" is tautological: the count for the same year is identical, so there is no year-over-year difference when both endpoints are 2024...
A precise count of murders in Washington, D.C., specifically occurring between October 2025 and December 2025, cannot be reliably extracted from the reporting provided; the sources include year-to-dat...
Washington, D.C. overall trended toward fewer murders in 2025, with multiple analyses and official summaries reporting sizable year‑to‑date declines, but publicly available reporting in the provided s...
The clearest, repeatedly reported pattern for 2024→2025 is a substantial net decline in homicides across many U.S. cities — analysts and aggregated indexes put the national drop roughly around 17–20% ...
Public officials and independent analysts point to a recent overall decline in Washington, D.C., homicides in 2025 compared with the 2023 peak, while several high-profile shootings this month — includ...
Washington, D.C.’s homicide count fell from 274 deaths in 2023 to 187 in 2024, producing a reported 2024 homicide rate of about 27.3 per 100,000 residents; multiple sources say homicides and violent c...