Murders in the United States were down 11.6% in 2023, according to statistics released by the FBI Monday morning. The murder rate went down from 6.2 per 100,000 people in 2022 to 5.7 per 100,000 ...

When a Time reporter in April 2024 presented the president with FBI statistics that showed a drop in homicides in 2023, Trump dismissed the data as “a lie” and “fake news.” ...

The coronavirus pandemic provided a conflicting set of impacts on crime statistics in the U.S. Prior to the pandemic, violent crime rates in America were actually on a decline. Data from the FBI ...

Throughout the 2024 campaign, Trump insisted that violent crime and murders were on the rise under then President Joe Biden, despite FBI data and statistics from other sources showing that crime ...