Crime plummeted in the US in 2025 after a steady but less-precipitous decline in 2024. Not only is the scary rise in violence that began early in the Covid-19 pandemic now receding in the rearview mirror, but population-adjusted rates of some crimes — murder and burglary, notably — are approaching levels not seen in more than half a century, if ever.
Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-01-31/us-crime-is-going-down-are-video-games-and-phones-helping
