by Frank Holmes, reporter
President Donald Trump hasn’t even been in office one year yet, but experts say new government statistics prove his name will go down in the annals of American crime history.
An analysis of crime stats shows that, in 2025, the total number of American homicides fell by the largest level in U.S. history.
During his first year in office, President Trump’s administration ended one out of every five murders.
That shocking statistic comes from an analysis of data compiled by the Real-Time Crime Index, which crunches crime reports submitted by 570 law enforcement agencies across the nation.
The number of murders fell by 19.8 percent nationwide through October 2025.
Trump-hating Fake News media outlets from Axios, to ABC News, and even the now-defunded NPR had to report the slipping number of U.S. murders — on Christmas Eve, no less.
Conservatives weren’t exactly surprised the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal alien gangs, no-cash bail policies, and his focus on reinstating the death penalty made people think twice about killing someone.
“So you’re saying deporting violent illegals works?” asked talk show host Bill Mitchell.
“The thugs’ playground just got boarded up,” said Mitchell. “Safe streets are back, baby!”
Others contrasted the Trump administration’s record with the Obama-Biden-Harris administrations.
“During the 2020 to 2022 COVID years crime went feral, murders spiked, and everyone was told this was the new normal. Turns out it wasn’t,” wrote commentator Mario Nawfal.
Liberals point out the decline in homicides began in 2023 and picked up in 2024 year — but there’s a reason that actually condemns the Democrats.
🇺🇸 U.S. MURDER RATE IS CRASHING – BIGGEST DROP EVER RECORDED
The U.S. is on pace for the biggest 1 year murder drop ever, with killings down almost 20% in the first 10 months of 2025 compared to 2024, which is a wild sentence to read.
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— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) December 24, 2025
The number of murders fell 15 percent in 2024, as first President Joe Biden and then Vice President Kamala Harris sought to maintain their hold on power. Homicides fell during the election year, just as Black Lives Matter riots tapered off as Democrats saw the issue crop up in 2020 election year polling.
Is there any doubt murders would have spiked under Kamala Harris’ soft-on-crime policies? Is there any question she and her Obama administration holdovers would continue investigating Republican moms and dads who protest their policies while releasing dangerous criminals and facilitating narco-terrorism across the open border?
More damning to the Biden administration, it’s not just killings that have fallen since he left office. Mass shootings that involve large public spaces with multiple victims also fell to their lowest rate since 2006.
Despite the sea change in crime statistics under the 47th president, pundits and reporters went out of their way to deny that any praise should find its way to President Donald Trump.
“U.S. mass killings are down in 2025, though experts say it’s likely a return to typical levels,” said PBS News—evidently missing the fact that this proves crime spiked thanks to the 2020 BLM riots and remained high throughout the four years of the Democratic Party’s administration.
“Crime Is Down in 2025. Trump Doesn’t Deserve Credit,” insisted the Vera Institute, a tax-exempt organization that aims to abolish cash bail.
Some even went so far as to claim the falling crime rates refute President Trump’s comments.
“Chicago Recorded Fewest Murders In 60 Years In 2025, Bucking Trump’s ‘Murder Capital’ Insult,” taunted a “reporter” at the Block Club Chicago.
The murder rate fell across the most crime-ridden, Democrat-run cities and urban areas in the nation, thanks to a tough president in the White House.
A Chicago outlet admitted, “The 416 murders reported in the latest police data for 2025 — which will be finalized this month — marked the lowest annual number since 1965 and represented an almost 50 percent decline since 2021, when Chicago reported 805 murders.”
“Detroit sees lowest murder rate since 1965 amid decline in crime,” reported a local news outlet as it described the Motor City press conference sharing the good news on Wednesday.
“San Francisco has Lowest Homicide Rate in 70 Years,” announced the San Francisco Police Department.
“L.A. sees lowest homicide rate in decades — but why killings are down is up for debate,” said the Los Angeles Times, reporting on the City of Angels’ 230 homicides last year, “the fewest killings in a year since 1966 and the lowest per capita homicide rate recorded since 1959.”
In fact, “Compared to 2024, homicides were down dramatically in Washington (31%), Chicago (30%), New York City (21%) and San Francisco (20%),” the L.A. Times reported.
That doesn’t just mean good statistics: According to one expert, it means President Trump has saved tens of thousands of lives.
“Overall, there were likely around 12,000 fewer people murdered in the United States in 2024 and 2025 than in 2020 and 2021,” wrote Jeff Asher, a former crime analyst for the City of New Orleans, which was once the U.S. murder capital. “That is tremendous progress that should be celebrated while acknowledging that 14,000 or so murders this year in the United States is still far too many.”
Asher added, “Other crime types almost certainly fell at or near historic rates in 2025 as well”—and, once, again, the stats backed him up.
His statistics show a 23 percent drop in car thefts, an 18 percent reduction in robberies, a 10 percent drop in violent crimes, and a nine percent decrease in rapes nationwide in 2025.
Those numbers also bore up in one city after another.
The San Francisco Police Department said the city experienced a “substantial decline in crime in every meaningful category” of criminality during President Trump’s first year in office.
In Detroit, carjackings fell by half, “sexual assaults decreased 13.7%, aggravated assaults 8.4%, robberies 21.2%, and burglaries 10%,” said ClickOn Detroit.
The statistics make a few things clear: Many people owe something to President Donald Trump.
Democrats owe Trump an apology for opposing his border crackdown, ICE deployments to unsafe cities such as Chicago, and decision to emphasize the death penalty for the most heinous crimes.
Blue state voters owe Trump a debt of thanks for proving Republican crime policies work in practice.
And tens of thousands of Americans owe President Trump their lives and safety.
They should vote accordingly in the 2026 midterms. Their lives may depend on it.