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Homicide rates in the U.S. declined from the 1990s into the 2010s, with a sharp increase around 2020
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 ;...
between 2020 and 2024 shifted more in emphasis than in kind: the of homicides was driven largely by non-ideological interpersonal dynamics and routine-activity disruptions, while 2023–24 saw a broad r...
Over the last three decades homicide victimization rates have fallen from the high levels of the early 1990s, but have remained large and persistent: Black and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) po...
in the , but the evidence from 2024 shows it is neither a singular nor mechanically causal explanation: scholars find strong correlations—especially when poverty combines with and concentrated —yet ot...