Trump Effect: US On Pace For Biggest 1-Year Murder Rate Drop In History
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The Trump administration is making America safer.
According to a new analysis, there was a 20% drop in murders this year compared to 2024.
Mass killings also fell in 2025.
The U.S. is on pace for the largest one-year drop in murders the nation has ever recorded, according to an analysis by crime stats expert Jeff Asher.
The big picture: The decline in killings is part of a broader decrease in violent crime following the COVID-era spike. Mass killings in the U.S. also fell in 2025, reaching their lowest level since 2006.
The Real-Time Crime Index, which compiles data from 570 law enforcement agencies, shows a nearly a 20% decline in murders this year compared with the same period in 2024.
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Other major crime categories measured by the index were also down nationwide and across locations of all population sizes, including motor vehicle thefts (23.2%), aggravated assaults (7.5%) and robbery (18.3%).
The trend was seen in places where Trump focused his crime crackdown.
The positive trend includes a more than 20% decline in New York City, a 28% drop in Chicago and a nearly 28% plunge in Washington, DC, where President Trump oversaw a massive crime crackdown.
Murder in Los Angeles County also fell by nearly 19% along with a 7.5% decrease in New Orleans.
Trump is keeping his promises to the American people!
