According to data released by the FBI on Tuesday, crime decreased in every category in 2024 including murder, violent offense and motor vehicle theft. This indicates that a trend experts are trekking as reported that the number of violent crimes falls from a spike immediately after the Covid-19 epidemic.
While the report included good news, according to the FBI’s annual integrated crime report, last year, an average of a violent offense occurred every 25.9 seconds in the United States, which compiles the data of crime presented by law enforcement agencies across the country. This year’s report used data presented by 16,675 different agencies, which FBI stated that a joint population of over 325 million people, or about 95.6% of American residents, have been included.
The FBI report did not enter the venture to say why the figures of violent crime decreased. In response to a question during a briefing, an FBI official on Tuesday said in response to a question of CBS News, “It is difficult for us to say why, and every reporting agency will have a different reason, then said on Tuesday in response to a question of CBS News during a briefing.
The FBI noted that it saw an increase in the number Officers shot in the line of duty. The FBI official said, “Between 2021 and 2024, we originally killed 258 law enforcement officers in the line of duty,” said the FBI official.
All violent crime declined last year
Violent offenseWhich FBI defines as murder, nugalgent mangelotter, rape, robbery and stimulated attacks, compared to 2024, was an estimated 4.5% below in 2024, also saw a decrease with each subcater.
Murder and nongligent mangilator rate declined by 14.9% year -on -year. The robbery declined by 8.9%. Report found
Murder and nongligent mangilator rate fell for a second straight year, later 6.5 to 5.7 murders per 100,000 residents in 2023In 2024, the rate again fell, 5 murders per 100,000 residents. In the last 20 years, high points at the rate of murder were recorded in 2020, with 6.7 per 100,000 inhabitants, while the lowest was recorded, in 2014, with 4.4 cases per 100,000 people per 100,000 people.
Analysis from jeff ashar, A criminal justice data expert and co-founder of the counseling firm AH Datalitics said that when murder, rape and robbery have fallen from pre-covered levels after a large spike during epidemics, growing, growing, “too much”.
In an innings of previous years, both Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff Office contributed data to the FBI report.
LAPD chief Alan S. of detectives. Hamilton credited the community and violence intervention programs in Los Angeles to contribute to a decline in crime. “We made an investment in the future and I think these are dividends,” he told CBS News in a phone call on Monday night.
Rodney Harrison, former Police Commissioner of Safolk County, New York, Rodney Harrison, CBS News Law, said that a few drops in violent crime can be held responsible for criminals who transfer their efforts for online crimes such as identity theft.
Harrison told CBS News, “If they do not need to go out on the road and run drugs and earn money sitting on the computer, some criminals would do what the police present,” Harrison told CBS News.
Property offense also down
Property offense saw a significant decrease of 8.1% in 2024, the FBI report found that after 2.4% decline in 2023.
Note that after several years of increase in motor vehicle theft, there was a decrease of 18.6% from 2023 to 2024. This is the largest one year drop recorded in that category, although the overall rate of car theft is still higher than in 2019, according to Asher.
Other subclasses of property offenses include theft, below 8.6%, and larler-chori, below 5.5%.
The overall property crime rate in 2024 was recorded the lowest since 1961, according to the Council on Criminal Justice.
hate crimes
FBI also included data hate crimesBased on reports of 16,419 law enforcement agencies. In 2024, those departments reported 11,679 criminal incidents and 13,683 related crimes, inspired by bias on the basis of breed, ethnicity, lineage, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender or gender identity.
The total number of such incidents decreased in 2024 compared to 2023, although the FBI said that there may be ups and downs while looking at various groups.
While the FBI report did not break the targets of hate crimes, CBS News has monitored the increase in antisementum hatred offenses reported on October 7, 2023 in Israel’s Hamas terror attack and subsequent Israeli military operations in Gaza. Anti -Muslim hatred crimes are also increasing in the same time.
Safe community networks, which helps track antisementic events across the country, stated that about 69% of the religiously motivated incidents reported in 2024 were targeting Jewish people or institutions.
Below trend continues
While the FBI report focuses on 2024, current year figures are available and according to the council analysis on Criminal Justice, show a constant downward trend.
The CCJ said that the homogeneous rate continued to decline in the first half of 2025, it has not been observed in the US in a decade. Although the group said that while the overall number is decreasing, many cities are still looking at the rate of higher murder in the first half of 2019.
“This number is promising, but not surprising,” senior CCJ’s senior research expert Ernesto Lopez told CBS News. “After a significant increase in violent crime starting in 2020, all the heads have a decline in all sizes of decline in all sizes.
The council also noted the FBI data limitations, which do not cover the entire American population and only measure crimes that inform law enforcement. For example, a lawyer for victims of sexual harassment, often note that many rapes become unattainable.
CCJ told CBS News, “Police data is important, but it is also important to remember that most crimes do not inform the police, so the overall volume is much higher than the representation here.”
Laura Gailer, Ash-Har Qureshi and Jacob Rosen contributed to the report.
