The United States murder rate has plummeted to its lowest level in more than 60 years under President Trump’s administration.
According to an annual crime trends report released by the Council on Criminal Justice, homicides nationwide have fully reversed their pandemic-era spikes.
Data analyzing major American municipalities show murders plummeted by roughly 21% from 2024 to 2025 β marking the single-largest one-year percentage drop recorded in modern U.S. history.
LOWEST murder rate since 1960!
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FBI Director Kash Patel celebrated the historic achievement, pointing to empowered law enforcement under Trump’s watch.
I don’t care what people think about me, but the RESULTS at this FBI under President Trump speak for themselves.
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β FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) June 30, 2026
Crime data analyst Jeff Asher stated the findings represent an unprecedented turning point.
“The United States almost certainly had the lowest murder rate ever recorded in 2025, with the FBI having data back to 1960. And the available evidence suggests that we’re going to go even lower this year.”
The massive drop in lethal violence is part of a sweeping decline across nearly every category of criminal offense.
Gun assaults dropped by 22%, robberies declined by 23%, and carjackings fell by an astonishing 43%.
The CCJ report revealed that 11 of 13 tracked crimes fell significantly over the same period.
Criminologists note the data signals a complete deflation of the chaotic crime wave that gripped the country between 2020 and 2022, when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted social institutions and pushed the national murder rate to a modern high of 6.8 per 100,000.
The year 2020 also saw widespread protests and outbreaks of violence tied to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Public safety officials who previously feared the country had settled into a permanently violent “new normal” are now looking at unprecedented peace across major hubs.
Richmond saw a 59% drop in murders, Los Angeles dropped 39%, and Atlanta recorded fewer than 100 homicides for the first time since before the pandemic.
The projected 2025 rate of approximately 4.0 per 100,000 residents represents the lowest level recorded in FBI data going back to 1960. The previous modern low was 4.4 to 4.7 in 2014.
While CCJ researchers argue the record-low numbers are driven by “complex, multifactorial” forces, law enforcement advocates point to the Trump administration’s backing of police as a turning point after years of anti-cop rhetoric.
A rate of 4.0 per 100,000 residents still equates to roughly 13,000 to 14,000 American deaths per year β but the trajectory marks a historic reversal from the violence that surged during the pandemic lockdowns and civil unrest.
