The violent crime rate in the United States fell at the fastest annual pace in 90 years, according to newly released FBI figures covering 2025. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program reported the steepest annual decline in the violent crime rate since the bureau began making national estimates in 1936. [snip] Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter offenses dropped an estimated 18.1%, robbery fell 18.5%, aggravated assault declined 7.2%, and rape decreased 7.6% from 2024 to 2025. The 2025 murder rate of 4.1 per 100,000 residents ties 1955 and 1956 for the lowest rate in the FBI data cited. Property crime fell an estimated 12.4% in 2025, with burglary down 15.8%, larceny-theft down 9.8%, and motor vehicle theft down 22.7%. [snip] Violent crime is down 10.6% so far in 2026, with murder and nonnegligent manslaughter offenses down 23%, rape down 18.6%, robbery down 19.6%, and aggravated assault down 7.2%. Hate crime also declined in 2025. Law enforcement agencies reported 10,881 hate crime incidents and 13,026 related offenses motivated by bias against race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity. [snip] More than 17,000 state, county, city, tribal, and university agencies submitted data to the program, covering 96.2% of the U.S. population. “These promising trends reflect our collective efforts with the federal, state, county, tribal, and local agency partners who own these data,” Patel said. “This reporting and the results shown are what matters to Congress and the American people. This FBI will continue to do all we can to pursue criminals everywhere and bring them to justice.” (*) Full article: https://www.newsmax.com/us/fbi-violent-crime/2026/08/18/id/1266521/ Post navigation Wealthy Leftists in California Get a Taste of Socialism — LOL! Flock thyselves
