American crime rates decreased in 2024, and the new FBI report shows Crime news

A new report issued by the FBI was found that the crime in the United States decreased in 2024, and continued towards improving public safety after a Spike in murders During the Covid-19 epidemic.

The report, issued on Tuesday, estimates that 1,221,345 accidents of violent crime – including murder, rape, theft and strict assault – occurred in the United States last year, a decrease of 4.5 percent of 2023.

Blessed murders decreased by 14.9 percent. But at a rate of 5 per 100,000 people, the United States’s murder is still much higher than most of the world.

For example, according to United Nations data, the killing rate in Japan in 2023 was 0.23 per 100,000 people. In Amman, it was 0.14. In Norway, it was 0.72. In the neighbor of the northern United States, Canada, the average was 1.98.

However, the 2024 killing rate in the United States represents the lowest level in nine years and a significant decline from a modern peak of 6.7 per 100,000 in 2020, the first year of the epidemic.

The report said that rape crimes decreased by 5.2 percent in 2024 Hate crimes He decreased by 1.5 percent.

Data provided to the FBI showed that a violent crime occurred on average every 26 seconds in 2024 and made the law applying more than 419,000 violent crime arrests.

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In general, a violent crime occurred in the United States every 26 seconds, a crime every 31 minutes and a rape crime every four minutes.

The property crime also decreased in 2024, according to the FBI report. The office recorded 5,986,400 of these crimes, a decrease of 8.1 percent from 2023.

The FBI said that the data depends on reporting thousands of law enforcement agencies covering 95.6 percent of the American population.

According to the report, 64 police officers were criminally killed last year, and 43 others died in accidents. More than 85,700 officers were attacked, a slight rise in 2023 and the highest level for 10 years.

Weapon He was a leading crime driver in the United States. According to armed violence archives database, there were 8,878 deaths associated with weapons and 261 mass shoots so far in 2025.

Last week, an attacker Gun Four people, including a police officer, were killed near the National Football League headquarters (NFL) in New York City.

Last year, the US President Donald Trump Public safety made a major issue in his campaign, as he photographed his democratic competitors as weak in crime and police control.

Although the initial rise in crime rates occurred during the past year from Trump’s first year, the Republican leader has repeatedly promised to restore “law and order.” It is largely the states and local authorities that oversee the police.

On Tuesday, Trump renewed his criticism of the local police and the judicial prosecution in Washington, DC, and threatened to assume the federal authorities in the American capital.

He claimed that the “thugs” in adolescence are indiscriminately attacking people in the capital and called for any of the youth and their trials to be tried as adults.

“Washington must be safe, clean and beautiful for all Americans, and most importantly, the world will see,” Trump books In a social media publication.

“If the capital does not get its work together, quickly, we will have no choice but federal control over the city, and the operation of this city how it should be operated, and the criminals are placed that they will not escape from it anymore.”

However, official data indicates that the crime was in a declining direction in Washington, DC, which contradicts Trump’s claim that the capital was “completely out of control.”

For example, violent crime decreased by 35 percent in 2024 compared to the previous year, and the killing decreased by 32 percent.

On Tuesday, the state of public safety during the Trump era, who returned to the White House in January this year.