The FBI released its latest Uniform Crime Reporting survey last week that revealed a notable positive trend continuing across the US—with violent and property crimes dropping by double digits.
Compared to January through March 2023, data from the first quarter of 2024 indicates that reported violent crime decreased by 15.2 percent.
Murder decreased by more than 26 percent.
Rape is down by 25.7 percent.
Robbery dropped by 17.8 percent.
Aggravated assault reports decreased by 12.5 percent.
Property crime also decreased by just over 15 percent.
The report includes data from more than 18,000 city, county, state, tribal, university and college, and federal law enforcement agencies.
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Last year, crime in the U.S. declined across nearly every category, with the FBI tallying one of the lowest rates of violent crime in more than 50 years and one of biggest drops in murder rates seen in history.
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The FBI publishes annual data on crimes that have been reported to law enforcement, but not crimes that haven’t been reported. And while the FBI’s data is based on information from thousands of federal, state, county, city and other police departments, not all law enforcement agencies participate every year. In 2022, the most recent full year with available statistics, the FBI received data from 83% of participating agencies.