Fact-check · Sep 9, 2026 · Donald Trump
“We achieved the largest drop in violent crime ever recorded in the history of our country with the murder rate falling to the lowest level in one hundred and twenty five years, the year 1900”
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What the record shows
2024: Murder down 14.9% (fastest single-year drop ever recorded); violent crime down 4.5%. Murder rate at 5 per 100,000—lowest since 2015, not 1900. 2025 projections suggest possible historic low, but FBI data only reliably standardized since 1960.
Sources
- FBI Releases 2024 Reported Crimes in the Nation Statistics | Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Violent crime is down and the US murder rate is plunging, FBI statistics show | CNN
- Nationwide 2024 Crime Data Demonstrate the Value of Violence Prevention and Local Law Enforcement - Center for American Progress
- Murder and other violent crime dropped across the U.S. last year, FBI data shows
- FBI Releases 2024 Quarterly Crime Report and Use-of-Force Data Update | Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Murder Officially Plunged in 2024
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