U.S. murder rate approaches a record low

A police officer hangs yellow crime tape at Brown University in Providence, R.I., on Dec. 13, 2025, during the investigation of a shooting.

A few years ago, experts worried about a “new normal” of elevated violent crime in the U.S. Now the country is flirting with breaking its all-time low murder rate

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