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At first glance, results from the recently released 2025 FBI Uniform Crime Report that herald a slight decline in violent crime across America in 2024 may elicit optimism that America is finally turning the corner on its epidemic of repugnant brutality and bloodshed. However, a deeper dive intothat and other data reveals that violence in all of its many vile forms continues to careen out of control.

Despite the 4% decline in violent crimes last year, levels of violence continue to outpace pre-pandemic levels, with a violent crime occurring every 25 seconds in the nation, the FBI reports.

Politically motivated violence, most vividlly illustrated by the recent assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on a Utah college

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