Bad news for the liberal crime-industrial complex – Americans have stopped murdering each other. In fact, the U.S. murder rate has just fallen to its lowest level since 1900.
In other words, the last time America was this safe was more than 125 years ago, when Teddy Roosevelt was busting trusts, and the Wright brothers were still repairing bicycles.
According to new data, murders fell a jaw-dropping 21 percent across 40 major cities in 2025—the largest one-year drop ever recorded. Robbery plunged 23 percent. Gun assaults decreased 22 percent. Carjackings declined 61 percent. Even shoplifting was down by 10 percent. Nearly every category of violent crime collapsed.
Naturally, the liberal media is pretending to be utterly baffled about the mysterious force driving this historic drop in crime across the country.
Axios reports that the decline signals a complete reversal of the “COVID-era crime wave” (i.e., the left-wing crime spree that occurred when rioters went on a killing rampage and razed American cities to the ground). CBS has likewise credited a “return to normal after the pandemic.” The New York Times, meanwhile, has declared that “no one knows for sure” what’s behind the “staggering” drop in the murder rate.
If the improvement in crime that this data shows had happened under Barack Obama, rest assured that the Times already would have published a 12-part Pulitzer-bait series titled “How One Man Healed America.” If it had happened under Joe Biden, we’d be told the decline was a result of the beauty and unity brought into the world by Hunter Biden’s majestic paintings.
But it happened under President Donald Trump—so the official media response is a collective shoulder shrug; it’s impossible for anyone to know what the cause might be, we’re told.
The fact that Trump deployed National Guard troops into lawless Democrat-run cities, sealed the border shut, deported an army of violent criminal illegal aliens, backed law enforcement, and unapologetically punished violent offenders—that’s all just a coincidence, according to the liberal journalist class.
Let’s recall where we were just a few years ago. During the Biden administration, Democrat jurisdictions emptied their jails, defunded police, legalized shoplifting and petty theft, and imported hordes of hardened, bloodthirsty criminals from the world’s most dangerous countries. Prosecutors declined to prosecute. Judges declined to sentence. Mayors declined to notice.
The result? The worst violent-crime spike in the modern era.
Then Trump returned, did exactly what he promised—enforce the law—and crime collapsed so swiftly that the media couldn’t spin a fake narrative fast enough to cover it up.
In other words, he did the one thing Democrats and the media insist never works: punishment. It turns out that when you lock criminals behind bars, crime goes down. Who could have possibly seen that coming?
If liberals still think this is just a theory, they should check out the country that already ran the experiment.
Nayib Bukele ran for president of El Salvador on the radical, controversial, supposedly “authoritarian” idea that arresting criminals by the boatload and keeping them in prison would reduce crime. The international left howled. Human rights NGOs fainted. Editorial boards declared democracy dead. And then something extraordinary happened—crime vanished.
El Salvador had been the murder capital of the world, ruled by gangs that extorted shopkeepers, terrorized families, and killed with impunity. Bukele declared war on them. He suspended the criminal-friendly rules that made arrests impossible, flooded the streets with police and soldiers, and locked up tens of thousands of face-tattooed gang members. Today, homicide rates have plummeted by more than 90 percent. Tourists are back. Businesses are reopening. Foreign investment is returning. Ordinary Salvadorans—especially the poor—can finally walk outside without fear.
The left’s response? Seething hatred bordering on obsession.
Why? Because Bukele exposed the liberal lies that mass violence is inevitable, that the root causes of crime are “complex,” and that enforcing the law is somehow worse than letting innocent people be butchered. Bukele proved what progressives never want voters to realize: living with crime is a choice.
That’s exactly why they hate Donald Trump, too.
Trump didn’t invent law-and-order. He simply restored it. And just like in El Salvador, the results have been night and day. Americans who had been living in fear are getting their neighborhoods and cities back.
Trump’s great unpardonable sin in the eyes of the progressive left is that he proved how simple it really is to stop the crime.
Bukele and Trump are despised for the same reason. They demonstrate that crime is not an unsolvable mystery or an uncontrollable force of nature. It is a policy outcome. And when the government chooses order over excuses, criminals notice—fast.
That was true in New York under Mayor Rudy Giuliani. It was true nationwide in the 1990s. It’s true now in El Salvador, and in cities across the country under the Trump administration.
The media spent years insisting that Trump’s law-and-order rhetoric was dangerous, that enforcing immigration law was racist, that backing police was authoritarian, and that deploying the National Guard was fascist.
Now that murder has collapsed to its lowest level since the horse-and-buggy era, they’re hoping you won’t connect the dots.
Sorry. We already noticed.
And so did the criminals—which is why they stopped killing people.
Mike Marlowe is the pen name of a writer based in Texas.
I voted for President Trump, and, since he cannot run for the Presidency again, I will vet a candidate that thinks as much like him as I can validate, and vote for him/her. COMMUNISM/SOCIALISM/MARXISM, BE DAMNED.
Although this is good, the people need to elect responsible leaders at all levels of government and then hold them accountable. If the people remain complacent, then the situation will go back to unlawfulness and if the Democrats regain control, things will only get worse.
And the Democrats are fighting him every inch of the way. They are pro crime, pro illegal immigration, and for waste fraud and abuse. They had their hands in the cookie jars in Minnesota up to their elbows. All these riots with ICE are just a diversion. On a regular basis the Democrats pee on the average American citizen without even having the courtesy to call it rain
If you needed further proof of the disingenuousness of the left-wing media, look no further than the Associated Press (AP). A week ago I was reading an article on this very subject. And rather than give Trump any credit for the reduction in crime, they posited that this historic downward trend in crime started well before Trump assumed office and it actually started in the latter years of the Biden/Harris administration. Trump is just the beneficiary of policies enacted by Biden/Harris. This is laughably absurd.
The worst part is most people reading the story will believe it whole-heartedly and not question it. The mainstream media is truly the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party. I want to puke.
If we would deport criminals instead of incarceration, that would lower the crime rate even more and save a bundle.
Fellow patriots – If the far-left democrat communist take control of our great country, like they just did in my home state of Virginia and in New York City it will be all over for the USA! We all need to be speaking up to call out what is happening and support the Trump administration and primary all the deep state RINOS from office. Pay attention to what your representatives and senators are saying and hold them accountable.
The Leftist crime wave is just hiding out waiting for Trump’s removal. The Minneapolis insurgency is a test case for other cities run by the Leftist insurrection. What is the GOP doing to support Trump? NOTHING
This alone was worth my vote we need every (illegal) law breaker out of this nation and anyone supporting the law being broken if the American people get punished for breaking laws so should everyone else PERIOD
Victory & Vote for Trump policies for Midterms
The democrats like to obstruct those who have a different philosophy. Only their policies are acceptable. They love lawlessness and spreading hatred among the masses. They love it that the criminal illegals were raping and murdering women and girls here in America. Not one time did we hear sympathy or condolences to the families of these victims from the democrat leadership. They sat on their hands when President Trump mentioned them in his speech to congress. But cheered when the Maryland illegal criminal’s name was mentioned. Not American citizens being killed by these foreigners Biden allowed in this country without being vetted or having proper papers. When a person immigrates to a different country there are laws and restrictions you have to follow before you are allowed to reside in that country permanently. The disaster Biden created by allowing 20 million plus foreigners from 164 countries to just walk across the border with Biden’s name emblazoned on the t shirts they were wearing and 300 dollar Nike shoes. Then told Texas you take care of them. Really now. Then they got upset when the governor of Texas bused them up north. The elites living in Maine and Massachusetts didn’t like that very much. NIMBY was their slogan and send them within 24 hrs someplace else. Then they let the criminals among them lose on the cities and the prisoners out of the prisons here to join them. And allowed stealing up to 999 dollars without any consequences. Lawlessness was rampant. Killings and carjacking were a daily occurrence everywhere. Calling the police about a break-in was no help. They refused to do anything. Since then they have extended their lawlessness to ICE agents and republican citizens. Demonstrators who are paid by Soros can do what they want. No police is coming to help the agents from these mobs. Hell the police in Minneapolis are on the side of the demonstrators. How did President Trump restore law and order? Because he is not threatening, he is following reason and sensible behavior. Law and order is a prerequisite for the unity of a society. Anything else you get anarchy like in Minneapolis. This anarchy is driven from the top, and financed by Soros and others who want to destroy America. That is why Walz and Frey and Elison and Ohmar are still inciting these protesters who are paid by Soros to destroy this country. Frey said yesterday where are the receipts that these protesters were being paid. That is a stupid question. Soros and his cronies wouldn’t be that stupid to give out receipts to these paid protesters. Democrats think we the citizens of this country must be stupid to swallow that stupid question. The hatred coming from these protesters can only be reached with an orchestrated mob mentally and the mob knowing nothing will happen to them, we got your back. These elderly women who are screaming their inciting slogans at the ICE agents should be ashamed of themselves. But worshipping satan they have created a hatred for anyone and anything that does not fit their rhetoric. Can we put this demon back in the bottle? I doubt it. Only arrests and convictions to put them in jail is the way to get these people to understand they are going the wrong way and are destroying this country. Law and order and trust in your neighbors is the way to live. Not forcing dictatorial mandates on the people and pursuing those in law enforcement to the point of killing them plus their families and their parents as well. These American citizens haven’t done any crime while those criminals who walked into this country are supported over a law abiding citizen to the point they want to kill all ICE agents and border patrol agents. And kill secretary Noem because she is in charge of these people. Why kill? The democrats love this chaos. Takes Trump’s accomplishments off the news. Not like MSM would ever report anything good Trump does. They are 100% anti Trump and his restoring America. In spite of that Trump is succeeding to get things done he promised during the campaign. And that is what upsets these lefties. When you are on the wrong side no amount of lies is going to get the masses on your side. Your evil extremism has no place in this country. And the majority of Americans are onto your tactics.
All I can do is continue to thank President Trump for what he is doing for our country! I furthermore want to give thanks to ICE and all law enforcement agencies for an excellent job that they are doing! Do not surrender to the enemies of this country, continue to support our great president in being great patriots!
Bukele, my kind of leader. Honest hard working citizens cannot afford private security, like the liberal politicians can; we need law enforcement, which we pay for with our taxes.
Also, I believe we need to make our jails, less attractive to the criminals, so that it will cause them to dread jail, not expect it to be a club where they fellowship with their own kind. Just a thought
Extremely frustrating that we have a corrupt and dishonest MSM who refuse to report the news objectively and with good sense. We have a bought and paid for media whose corporate billionaire owners tell them what to program and what to say — all with a Leftist agenda. These people are paid $millions a year to obfuscate, hide and commit sins of omission. We need a new media whose motto is “The Truth Be Told.” Wish I could found it!!
January 6th war called an insurrection and hundreds of people were locked up. The current uprising of the left is truly an insurrection, why isn’t EVERY protester interfering with ICE doing their job being locked up
Someone who lives in Manhattan noted that in her police precinct arrests are up, yet crime convictions are down. How can that be? That can happen when charged crimes are downgraded and/or not prosecuted. Drug stores close because shoplifting isn’t prosecuted. Then residents complain that their nearest drug store is so far away. That’s right before they cast their vote for the insane liberals who don’t want shoplifting prosecuted because store loses are covered by insurance. No problem, right? After a while those stores can’t find affordable insurance. Buying anything in the remaining drug stores requires you to get an employee to unlock the display case. That’s a real pain, so more people are using delivery services. A mall in downtown San Francisco just closed its doors because the stores were closing and customers don’t feel safe shopping. California Governor Newsome wants to be president after watching one of the nation’s most beautiful cities disintegrate into a giant homeless encampment and drug emporium.. Go figure.
We need to encourage our friends and family members to vote in the midterms. We need to keep and possibly expand our representation in Congress.
No surprise we hear nothing about this in the media.
You are right on the money Mike Marlowe.We have so many of our own home grown criminals here that we really need to focus on deportations, so we don’t have to house and feed even more than we already are.
God bless President Donald Trump.
Great article. It would be helpful if the sources of the data were included. (Did I overlook them?) Doing so would allow us a better defense when talking or debating. Just a thought.
This is great news, especially for those from El Salvador. They can safely go back home and live in much better cities than they’re in right now inn the US. Let’s just hope we have the intelligence to keep electing people like President Trump and that other world leaders will get the guts to proceed, as he did for the good of their countries.
This probably will not be popular, especially with the liberal Democrats.
However:
Florida 2026 last stand to save the republic in Trump home state of Florida Governor race 2026
Thank you for reporting the accurate information Americans needs to hear. Continue to pray for our country to unashamedly keep God as the foundation of our great nation! That is how the healing will occur.” All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”, Rev Charles Aker 1916. Thank God our president is a good man keeping his promises.
This is what I voted for. God Bless the victims of these illegals criminals. ????????
God bless President Trump, ICE, National Guard and all great patriots for saving our country! Praying they continue to complete what we voted for, follow Gods words and the constitution in Jesus name!
Arrest and prosecute the criminal politicians, judges and lawyers!
Amen… Promise made, promise kept!!! Thank the LORD! I hope all voters notice.
The FBI’s success in arresting folks on the top ten list is remarkable.
More power to them. We can be different without damage. We can be assertive without anger. We can be emotional without aggression. We can be separate without spitting. The things that unite us are stronger than the things that divide us. We are all AMERICANS !!
San Antonio Texas is a sanctuary city also but they pretend they are not. Don’t forget to check on them when you are looking for city connections.
ALL of these incredible accomplishments simply INFURIATE America’s ENEMIES WITHIN – The megs corrupt Socialist Communist DamnoCRAP party and ALL the supporters of it.
how do we give this info to the mainstream media for worldwide distribution?
Elect Christian conservatives, become election officials where you live-they will pay you, support these candidates financially, put up a sign in your yard, tell others about the candidate. If democrats take over the house or senate what is happening in NY city and Minneapolis will be accepted-kiss your freedom goodbye!!!
This is terrible. Trump is hurting the undertaker industry. Oh the horror!
What I see with all the left wing lunatics is simple. Many are paid agitators that are moving to a left wing militia to start civil war. I’m a proud conservative Republican and I’ll be damned if I won’t stand for my ideology. President Trump needs to call insurrection and bring in the military . Walz, Frey, Newscum go to far and it’s seditious. Those 3 need to be locked up. This madness must stop. Ilhan claims Trumps talk is why she was squirted with water bu her friend yet Walz and Frey fire the ignorant. I think it’s Fux Bayoneta, lock and load, stop the madness.
Here here, great article! Go MAGA, go Trump, and God bless America! And a pox on the democrat party in America who sold us down the tubes to stay in power, and attempted a Marxist restructuring of our great country, which would have turned it into a lawless hellscape akin to a new Mad Max movie, only it would have been all to real!!
God bless President Trump and President Bukele.
Nicely written and reported. Tkyu
A 21% drop in the murder rate means American’s have “stopped” killing each other?
No, a 100% drop would mean American’s have stopped killing each other.
A 21% drop means there’s still an outrageous amount of murders. Yikes.
Proving, “The more things change, the more they stay the same…”
Thank you.
I am in full agreement with the analysis presented and very happy with our present administration, regardless of what so-named “progressives” choose to believe.
Amazing what I just read about Obama and his policy on illegals in America! Wish the Democrats would check that and agree!
What a concept….put the criminals in jail and deport them and our murder rate falls!! The radical liberals are upset that we are lowering murder rates because they need chaos and crime to reign in the U.S. That helps their agenda of turning our land into a Communist hell-hole. We must stop the rebellions in our blue cities NOW!
This is a bunch of hooey. Crime is NOT down. It is not reported correctly. Lies and more lies. It takes the first 25-30 minutes for the crime reports to be finished on the news every day. That’s the way it’s been for years. Shootings, stabbings, murder-suicides, daily. There are not less, there are more. And the killers are getting younger and younger. Car thefts are now being done by 13-year-old kids. Parents are being murdered by their kids. Drive-by shootings are killing innocent people in their own homes. Another case of gaslighting just like they have tried with the economy.
Trump is the head of an outlaw gang called ICE that assaults, arrests and kills American citizens. How can you say he restores law and order when legal process isn’t followed?