A new report by the Council on Prison Justice (CCJ) reveals the homicide fee within the nation has dropped to historic ranges.
CCJ analyzed month-to-month crime information from 40 cities over the previous 8 years.
11 of 13 crime classes noticed a decline in 2025 in comparison with 2024. 9 of the 13 noticed a drop by 10% or extra, homicides dropped by 21%. CCJ says drug crimes have been the one offense class that elevated (+7%); sexual assault remained even.
Key Takeaways Based on CCJ:
modifications in violent offenses, the speed of reported homicides was 21% decrease in 2025 than in 2024 within the 35 research cities offering information for that crime, representing 922 fewer homicides. There have been 9% fewer reported aggravated assaults, 22% fewer gun assaults, and a pair of% fewer home violence incidents final yr than in 2024. Theft fell by 23% whereas carjackings (a kind of theft) decreased by 43%.
With the decline in homicides, CCJ says this may be the bottom fee ever recorded in regulation enforcement or public well being information going again to 1900, and would mark the most important single-year share drop within the murder fee on file.
Property Crimes:
Motorized vehicle theft had been on the rise from the summer season of 2020 by way of 2023, however that development started to reverse in 2024 and the sample continued in 2025. There have been 27% fewer motorized vehicle thefts final yr than in 2024 within the research cities. Experiences of residential burglaries (-17%), nonresidential burglaries (-18%), larcenies (-11%), and shoplifting (-10%) all decreased in 2025 in comparison with 2024.
Non-violent crime tendencies have been different during the last seven years. There have been fewer residential burglaries (-45%), larcenies (-20%), and reported store lifting incidents (-4%) in 2025 than in 2019, however extra non-residential burglaries (+1%) and motorized vehicle thefts (+9%). Drug offenses in 2025 have been 19% under 2019 ranges.
In Florida, the Florida Division of Regulation Enforcement (FDLE) reviews among the main cities are seeing a drop in violent and property crimes, together with homicides, robberies, and motorized vehicle thefts.
