The nationwide homicide rate has fallen to the “lowest it has been in modern history,” FBI Director Kash Patel said this week.

While official FBI data for 2025 is scheduled to be released in December, Patel offered a positive preview of the statistics in a Wednesday interview with the Epoch Times .

“I’m happy to announce, finally, that one of the big targets we had for this year, obviously, was to reduce the murder rate across America,” he said. “This FBI is going to be releasing murder rates in December, which is the lowest it has been in modern history, by double digits.”

Patel’s claim appears to check out, according to crime data experts. Jeff Asher, a former analyst for the Department of War (DOW) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), predicted in September that t

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