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Changes in U.S. homicide rates since the 1990s, with varying trends across cities and time periods
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...
Historians report that was, on average, far more violent by modern standards in many places and periods, but the picture is uneven: parts of the early 1800s show relatively low aggregate homicide rate...
The ’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program and the ’s mortality-based measure largely the same phenomenon—people killed by others—but they differ in data source, case definitions, coverage, and prod...
Available historical research shows that systematic, race-disaggregated homicide data for the 1800s is sparse, but scholars who have reconstructed long-run trends conclude that aggregate homicide rate...