[ZeroHedge] The question is, how many other blue cities are involved in the same kind of crime stat suppression and is this the real cause of the drop in criminal activity. Or, did Trump play a substantial role in cutting down homicides? Perhaps the mass deportations along with National Guard deployments in place like DC and LA have had a meaningful effect on urban violence.
I vote for all of the above — things are usually more complex as a matter of principle.
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Despite a flurry of politically charged violence and a number of Islamic and left-wing motivated terror attacks, 2025 also experienced the largest single-year decline in homicides in US history. The plunge brings official US homicide rates to near-record lows.
Based on a sampling of preliminary crime statistics from 550 U.S. law enforcement agencies, the year is expected to end with a roughly 20% decrease in homicides nationwide, Jeff Asher, a national crime analyst, told ABC News.
"So, even taking a conservative view, let's say its 17% or 16%, you're still looking at the largest one-year drop ever recorded in 2025," said Asher, co-founder of AH Datalytics and a former crime analyst for the CIA and the New Orleans Police Department.
The drop comes after what many law enforcement analysts call the "Pandemic Surge", the Biden era explosion in homicides and overall crime was considered endemic to Democrat controlled cities across the US. Though, Democrat leaders claimed throughout Biden's term that no such surge was taking place. |