Crime in Miami and the state of Florida is at an all-time low.
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The Benny ShowOct 26, 2026
The claim's central superlative, that crime is at an all-time low in Miami and Florida, is not corroborated by any source. The sources instead document multi-decade lows (a 50-year low for Florida's crime rate, a 47-year low in an older Florida release, and Miami-Dade's lowest homicide count in at least 58 years), which are not all-time records.
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… Okay, and it's getting kind of tight, getting kind of packed. No, My we're we're the victim of our own success. Miami's become the center of the world in many ways, even with an influx of population and a lot of economic development and tourism. Nevertheless, crime is at an all-time low. That goes for Miami and and the whole state. Here, we're proud of that. We back our law enforcement, we prosecute cases, we don't hand out lenient plea deals, and people are thus flocking to Florida to raise families here as a result. But, yeah, it's getting a little bit of crowded. …
The Benny Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. Florida-specific coverage describes a 50-year low in the state's overall crime rate (2022), not an all-time low, and reports continued declines since then.[3]
Contradicts. A Florida Trend release frames Florida's crime rate as a 47-year low, and an older Salazar release describes South Florida as at a 50-year low, both of which are multi-decade rather than all-time records.[1][4]
Contradicts. Miami-Dade's 2025 homicide count is reported as its lowest in at least 58 years, a historic low framed by the record's own time window rather than as an all-time low.[5]
Supports. Recent data show declining crime in Miami and Florida, including a 3% overall and 7% violent crime drop in Miami and a 6.4% overall drop in Florida between 2023 and 2024, so the direction of the trend is supported.[6][7][8]
Context. The Florida Health CHARTS violent-crime table shows the state's 2024 rate (145.7) below 2020 (150.5), consistent with recent declines but not with an all-time low across the full historical record.[2]
Sources
8 sources: 2 primary, 5 not rated, 1 tier 2
- 1Salazar Praises South Florida’s Historically Low Crime Ratesalazar.house.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 2Violent Crime: Ten Year Report - Florida Health Chartsflhealthcharts.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 3Florida Crime Trends: What the Latest Data Shows - WCCTV'swcctv.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4Florida's crime rate hits 47-year lowfloridatrend.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 5Fewer lives lost: Miami-Dade hits lowest murder count in nearly 60 yearsaol.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 6Miami police chief says crime is down 3% overall, 7% for violent crime, in first 100 days on the jobcbsnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 7What is the crime rate in Florida?usafacts.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 8A closer look at the vastly different Florida attorney general ...news-journalonline.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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