FBI Director Kash Patel credited the Trump administration’s law-and-order policies for producing the U.S.’s largest-ever drop in murders in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term.
The Council on Criminal Justice released a report, notably leaving out the top two murder rates in national cities per capita, showing that U.S. murders dropped by 21% in 2025. The report, which analyzed data from 40 large cities, showed the largest single-year decline on record.
Patel argued that this historic turnaround is a direct result of Trump’s crackdown on crime, including a significant increase in violent crime arrests and the disruption of gangs and criminal enterprises.
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“[Media outlets] somehow forgot to mention President Trump or the historic results of this FBI,” Patel said in an X post.
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