US crime rates dropped in 2024, new FBI report shows

A caller study from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has recovered that transgression successful the United States decreased successful 2024, continuing a inclination of improved nationalist information aft a spike successful murders during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The report, released connected Tuesday, estimates that 1,221,345 incidents of convulsive transgression – including murder, rape, robbery and aggravated battle offences – took spot successful the US past year, down by 4.5 percent from 2023.

Intentional homicides decreased by 14.9 percent. But astatine a complaint of 5 for each 100,000 people, the execution complaint successful the US remains importantly higher than passim astir of the world.

For example, according to United Nations data, the execution complaint successful Japan successful 2023 was 0.23 per 100,000 people. In Oman, the complaint was 0.14. In Norway, it was 0.72. And successful the US’s bluish neighbour, Canada, the complaint was 1.98.

Nonetheless, the 2024 execution complaint successful the US represents a nine-year debased and a large diminution from a caller highest of 6.7 per 100,000 successful 2020, the archetypal twelvemonth of the pandemic.

Rape offences besides went down by 5.2 percent successful 2024, the study said, portion reports of hate crimes decreased by 1.5 percent.

Data submitted to the FBI shows a convulsive transgression occurred connected mean each 26 seconds successful 2024 and instrumentality enforcement made much than 419,000 convulsive transgression arrests.

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Overall, a convulsive transgression occurred successful the US each 26 seconds, a execution each 31 minutes and a rape offence each 4 minutes.

Property transgression besides decreased successful 2024, according to the FBI report. The bureau recorded 5,986,400 specified offences, an 8.1 percent alteration from 2023.

The information is based connected the reporting of thousands of instrumentality enforcement agencies that screen 95.6 percent of US residents, the FBI said.

According to the report, 64 constabulary officers were criminally killed past year, and 43 others died successful accidents. More than 85,700 officers were assaulted, a flimsy uptick from 2023 and a 10-year high.

Gun violence has been a starring operator of transgression successful the US. According to the database Gun Violence Archives, determination person been 8,878 gun-related deaths and 261 wide shootings truthful acold successful 2025.

Last week, an attacker armed with a rifle killed 4 people, including a constabulary officer, adjacent the office of the National Football League (NFL) successful New York City.

Last year, US President Donald Trump made nationalist information a large taxable successful his predetermination campaign, portraying his Democratic rivals arsenic anemic connected transgression and anti-police.

Although the archetypal uptick successful transgression rates happened during the past twelvemonth of Trump’s archetypal term, the Republican person repeatedly promised to reconstruct “law and order”. It is mostly the states and section authorities that oversee policing.

On Tuesday, Trump renewed his disapproval of section policing and prosecution successful Washington, DC, threatening to person national authorities instrumentality implicit the US superior city.

He claimed that teenage “thugs” are randomly attacking radical successful the superior metropolis and called for immoderate younker suspects to beryllium prosecuted and tried arsenic adults.

“Washington, DC, indispensable beryllium safe, clean, and beauteous for each Americans and, importantly, for the World to see,” Trump wrote successful a societal media post.

“If DC doesn’t get its enactment together, and quickly, we volition person nary prime but to instrumentality Federal power of the City, and tally this City however it should beryllium run, and enactment criminals connected announcement that they’re not going to get distant with it anymore.”

However, authoritative information shows that transgression has been connected a downward inclination successful Washington, DC, contradicting Trump’s assertion that the superior “is wholly retired of control”.

For example, convulsive transgression went down by 35 percent successful 2024 compared with the erstwhile year, and homicide dropped by 32 percent.

Tuesday’s information does not bespeak the authorities of nationalist information nether Trump, who returned to the White House successful January this year.