However, while the national crime rate has been steadily falling since the 1990s, according to Pew, ... Newsweek created a ...

On multiple occasions throughout 2024, U.S. President Joe Biden and members of his administration claimed that the violent crime rate in the United States was at a 50-year low. Biden even included ...

Is crime out of control? The homicide rate went down 12 percent last year. Still, there’s more than one kind of crime, more than one data set and more than one way to spin things.

Compared to the national crime rate, reported Alaska aggravated assaults were 6.7 times higher than the national average, at 1,770.4 per 100,000 residents.

New Mexico topped the list of states by reported crime rate, at 6,462 per 100,000 residents, more than double the bottom 11 states on the list.