WASHINGTON – Violent crime rates in the US have plummeted with their biggest one-year drop on record, according to a new FBI report that President Trump touted Friday as evidence that he’s “making America safe again.”
The 2025 Uniform Crime Report showed violent crime was down 9.3% from the previous year, murder was down 18.1%, rape decreased by 7.6%, robbery was down 18.5%, aggravated assault decreased 7.2%, and motor vehicle theft was down 22.7%.
“Every single number is the lowest number in recorded history,” he said of the new report. “We have the best crime record in recorded history,” Trump, who’s portrayed himself as a law-and-order president, said during a Long Island stop.
The Trump administration has embraced policies that helped fight crime rates: cracking down on criminal migrants, decreasing the number of immigrants trying to illegally cross the border and sending National Guard to big cities like Washington D.C.
The focus of Friday’s event on Long Island was the crime-fighting efforts, a change from the economic policies Trump has touted as he tries to rally his MAGA base to the polls this November.
Rows of police officers in uniform stood behind the president in his remarks as he saluted their work.
“We ended the war on police, and we declared a very strong war on crime,” Trump said.
And he pivoted to attacking Democratic policies, reviving his favorite new moniker for them: Dumbocrats.
“Their policies are so dumb,” he said. “Fighting to defund the police. Does that play well in this room? Is there anybody that’s in favor of defunding the police in this particular?”
FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Todd Blanche joined Trump for the stop at the Nassau County Police Academy.
“The 2025 crime statistics exemplify the great work this FBI and our law enforcement partners on the front line are doing to crush violent crime,” Patel wrote in his introduction of the report.
Crime rates across the country have been on the decline since spiking during the COVID pandemic.
Trump is touting the new numbers as Republicans seek to keep control of Congress in the midterm election, tying together his criticism of Democrats as communists with a new claim that Democrats stand with criminals.
The president was campaigning for New York’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman during his stop in the state.
He slammed Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul’s record on crime.
“Hochul has been very, very bad on crime, a nightmare for crime,” he said.
And he claimed she and her party support criminal actors.
“But Hochul and the radical left stand with the gang members, child predators, and violent felons. We stand with hardworking New Yorkers,” Trumps said. “We stand with the great people of law enforcement.”
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