The nation's violent and property crime rates dropped to a two-decade low in 2024, following the COVID-era surge in homicides, according to new FBI data released this week.

Why it matters: The numbers show crime was heading toward a 20-year record low in the last year of the Biden administration, despite President Trump's false campaign claims that President Biden was overseeing a nationwide crime spike.

The big picture: The new FBI numbers released Tuesday also come as preliminary data from the country's largest cities in 2025 so far suggest violent crime is falling even more and could be heading to modern record lows.

By the numbers: The U.S. had a violent crime rate of 359.1 per 100,000 residents last year, the FBI said. • That surpassed the lowest violent crime rate the nation has

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