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\n President Donald Trump, surrounded by his top law enforcement officials, touted Friday the significant drop in murder and other crimes following the FBI\u2019s 2025 crime report.\n <\/p>

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\n The murder rate is now at lows not seen since the 1950s, according to the agency\u2019s report, following a downward trend since the numbers spiked in the 2020s, as the Covid pandemic took hold of the US.\n <\/p>\n

\n The trend is continuing in 2026, with murder, violent crime, and robbery rates continuing to drop in the first half of the year, according to data from the FBI and independent organizations.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to announce that the FBI has just released a new Uniform Crime Report showing that in 2025 we achieved the single largest reduction in violent crime in American history,\u201d Trump said at an event Friday on Long Island, New York. \u201cPretty amazing. And last year there were over 3,100 fewer murders than the year before I took office.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Trump and his officials, including FBI Director Kash Patel, have pointed to the administration\u2019s efforts to surge federal resources to cities across the US and, in a refrain used often by Patel, letting \u201cgood cops be cops.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Others are less dogmatic about the cause of declining crime rates, which have been dropping since before Trump\u2019s second term began.\n <\/p>

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\n What has caused this welcomed decline in crime across the US is \u201cas clear as a glass of milk,\u201d Adam Gelb, the president of the nonpartisan think tank Council on Criminal Justice said in releasing its own report Thursday on 2025 crime rates.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe homicide drop is historic and crystal clear. But right now, what\u2019s driving it is about as clear as a glass of milk,\u201d Gelb said. \u201cRates are falling in cities with very different public safety strategies, economic conditions, and political leadership. The consistency across the map should make us cautious about handing credit to any one leader, party, policy, or program before the evidence catches up.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n While no single cause can easily explain the decline across a country of over 340 million people, researchers at CCJ told CNN that a range of possible influences include changes in how criminal justice is enforced as well as societal and culture change and technological advances have likely all contributed to the decrease.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump says his administration, including Patel and newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche, are deserving of the credit.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cLet\u2019s say they don\u2019t have good leadership, like Chicago has very bad leadership. But we have the numbers down because of what the federal government\u2019s doing,\u201d Trump said Friday. \u201cThey like to take all the credit, but everyone knows we\u2019ve done an amazing job. The US attorneys and the FBI, all the people, Kash, and Todd has been unbelievable.\u201d\n <\/p>

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