Annual figures released Tuesday reflect a 4.5% year-on-year decrease in all violent crime nationally in 2024

When Donald Trump fought for and won the 2024 presidential election, his victory was built partly on the false assertion that Democrats were responsible for an out-of-control crime wave in the US, with murders and rapes at record highs.

Figures released by the FBI on Tuesday, however, confirm that the nation was as safe as it ever had been during the final full year of the Biden administration. Every category of crime decreased in frequency, and violent crime in particular dropped to levels not seen since the 1960s, per the report.

The bureau’s annual Reported Crimes in the Nation Statistics report reflects a 4.5% year-on-year decrease in all violent crime nationally in 2024, with murder and non-negligent manslaughter falling 14.5% from the 2023 figure.

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      18 hours ago

      I dunno, he didn’t fire her after talking about the Epstein files being on her desk before the administration started claiming they simply don’t exist. I was kind of surprised about that.

      Wonder if it has anything to do with how she looks…

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        Also since they have no plans and their lies are just grasping at straws, they probably didn’t know they were going with the “the files do not exist” approach at the time bondi said that.