
Violent Crime Dropped 4.5% Nationwide in 2024, FBI Says
Violent crime in the U.S. dropped 4.5% last year, according to new FBI statistics released Tuesday, continuing a downward trend despite rhetoric claiming otherwise.
Violent crime in the U.S. dropped 4.5% last year, according to new FBI statistics released Tuesday, continuing a downward trend despite rhetoric claiming otherwise.
Violent crime rates fell markedly in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same period last year, according to FBI data released Monday.
By Steve Neavling The U.S. Marshals Service arrested more than 830 fugitives during a 30-month operation aimed at combating violent crime in 10 cities, the agency announced Monday. Operation North Star II targeted violent criminals, sex offenders, and gang members in Albuquerque, N.M; Buffalo, NY; Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio; Detroit, Mi; Jackson, Miss.; Kansas City,…
The government shutdown is hindering the FBI’s investigations of terrorism, child trafficking and violent crime, according to a report issued Tuesday by a group representing the bureau’s 13,000 special agents.
Over the last several decades, whenever there has been a reported increase in violent crime numbers, there have been people eager to seize on the statistics and argue, as the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has, that crime is “out of control.”
The FBI’s annual crime report is expected to show an increase in violent crime in some big cities in 2015.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Violent crimes in the U.S. increased in the first half of 2015 compared to the same period last year, according to preliminary FBI data. Local law enforcement reported to the bureau a 1.7% increase in violent crimes in the first six months of 2015. Murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery rose…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Violent crime dropped nationwide in 2014, according to the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report. While the .2% decline is modest, the report shows fewer murders than any year since 2009. Robbery, burglary, theft and arson also have declined, CNN reports. Some cities, however, saw spikes in murders: Baltimore, Milwaukee and Washington….