The violent crime rate is the lowest it has been in American history.
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The Dan Bongino ShowSep 16, 2026
The record supports the claim for murder: the FBI reports the 2025 murder rate of 4.1 per 100,000 tied the lowest since FBI national estimates began. For overall violent crime, sources place the rate at its lowest since 1969 (BBC, for 2024) and 'near multi-decade lows' (Oklahoma Watch), not as the lowest in American history.
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Contradicts. BBC Verify reports the violent crime rate for 2024 was the lowest since 1969, not the lowest in American history.[5]
Contradicts. Oklahoma Watch describes the violent crime rate as near multi-decade lows, citing an analysis that it was the lowest since 1969.[6]
Supports. The FBI reports the 2025 murder rate of 4.1 per 100,000 is the same as 1955 and 1956 and the lowest since it began national estimates.[1][3]
Context. Violent crime fell 9.3% in 2025, the largest one-year decline on record, from an already low 2024 level, which could place the 2025 rate below any earlier year, though no source states this.[1][4]
Context. FactChecking.org says the 2025 decline is real but was misleadingly credited to Trump, and that criminologists cite many possible causes.[2]
Sources
6 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 2 primary, 1 tier 1, 1 not rated
- 1US homicide rate hits 75-year low, FBI saysapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports, context
- 2FactChecking Day Two of the GOP Midterm Conventionfactcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Violent Crime Falls at Historic Rate, New FBI Data Show — FBIfbi.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 4President Trump Delivers the Largest Drop in Violent ...whitehouse.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 5Is US crime at a historic low?bbc.com · tier 1 · cited for: contradicts
- 6Is America's violent crime rate at a multi-decade low, as ...oklahomawatch.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
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