Serious violent and property crime rates took a sharp dive in 2025, dropping 25 percent and 19 percent, respectively, according to preliminary Justice Department findings obtained exclusively by Breitbart News.
FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau cleared a backlog of DNA samples that once topped 1.8 million to zero in less than a year and a half.
Mexican authorities arrested two men in connection with the murder of a popular musician in Mexico and three members of his family, including their three-year-old daughter and the musician’s pregnant wife. The apparent motive for the mass killing was a debt or an attempt to steal bitcoin from the musician.
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) National Political Committee member Frances Gill declined to say Sunday which agency would find and jail a rapist if police and prisons were abolished, dodging the question during a televised interview.
An Algerian illegal migrant who recently beat a Spanish man into a coma had been arrested 18 times in the past for numerous felonies since his arrival in 2020, local outlets reported on Tuesday.
FBI Director Kash Patel is pleased with Operation Summer Heat 2.0, and the FBI is revealing new overarching statistics showing the crackdown on crime has been massively effective.
A Texas court released a series of evidence from the murder case involving Karmelo Anthony, providing the public with its first detailed look at materials presented during trial proceedings.
A German police union chief has sparked controversy after suggesting that women should avoid relationships with men because of rising crime rates in the country, while apparently ignoring that government statistics indicate a higher likelihood of being a victim of migrant crime.
Nearly half of criminal suspects in violent crimes are foreign nationals in Germany, police statistics have found.
FBI Director Kash Patel detailed the agency’s victories cracking down on violent crime, as well as the Trump administration’s aggressive pursuit of fraud, during an interview with Breitbart News Saturday.
Vice President of El Salvador Félix Ulloa told the Spanish newspaper ABC that Nayib Bukele’s success is a “slap in the face” to “incompetent” Latin American leftists tied to European self-declared progressives.
A study conducted by the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) shows that murders in the U.S. plummeted during 2025, the first year of President Trump’s second term.
A repeat criminal offender allegedly randomly gouged an elderly woman’s eye out in Seattle after bashing her in the head with a board.
The nationwide homicide rate has fallen to the “lowest it has been in modern history,” FBI Director Kash Patel said this week.
President Donald Trump, FBI Director Kash Patel, on Wednesday, touted the FBI’s crackdown on violent crime since the start of the administration, and Trump called for his top law enforcement officials to zone in on San Francisco.
President Donald Trump established the “Memphis Safe Task Force,” which is modeled after the task force he established to clean up Washington, DC.
Violent crime in Washington, DC, has dropped 22 percent over the last week following President Donald Trump’s crackdown in the city.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” CNN Chief Data Analyst Harry Enten stated that he doesn’t think Washington, D.C. is manipulating its crime statistics, but Vice President JD Vance is correct and “I think it’s absolutely the case that crime,
A Democrat city council member in Cincinnati, Ohio, is refusing to take back comments she made about the victims of a recent violent street brawl.
Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval held a press conference on August 1, 2025, six days after a violent mob assault in downtown Cincinnati that left multiple people injured, to address growing public concern. Flanking him were several activists and officials whose past comments and affiliations have drawn public backlash amid heightened scrutiny of the city’s response to the attack.
Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) believes Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval (D) should resign following the violent brawl that broke out on the streets of downtown Cincinnati over the weekend, as he and others point to Democrat policies as a key factor in generating such violence.
The Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into a directive by Minnesota’s Hennepin County Attorney’s Office that prosecutors take race into consideration when striking plea deals with criminal defendants.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “On Balance,” Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) argued that because of the problems with violent criminals in the U.S., some of whom are immigrants, we should focus on them first “and then, if you’ve got time
President Donald Trump on Monday suggested removing serial American criminals from the United States and imprisoning them in another country for a fee.
In a 33-hour period under the Trump administration, ICE has arrested more than 460 illegal immigrants, including those with violent criminal histories.
The man who attacked former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) husband, Paul Pelosi, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday, without the possibility of parole.
The PragerU short documentary exposes “the forgotten [victims] of violent crime in America, which more often than not is children,” former BLM activist Xaviaer DuRousseau said during an interview with Breitbart News Daily.
As Election Day nears, one issue stands out as a potential game-changer: the significance of crime in key swing states, which may just be the catalyst that tips the election toward Donald Trump.
The FBI quietly revised its report of lower crime in 2022 — the second full year of the Biden/Harris administration — to show violent crime during that year actually rose 4.5 percent.
Former President Donald Trump announced “Operation Aurora,” aimed at expediting the removal of “every criminal network operating” in the United States, such as the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang.
Violent crime in urban America soared 40 percent from 2019 to 2023 under the Biden-Harris administration, according to the latest National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) run by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and administered by the Census Bureau.
During Tuesday’s presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump claimed the FBI’s report of lower violent crime is a “fraud.”
John Lott penned an op-ed in which he explained that despite media claims, violent crime actually rose under Biden but fell under Trump.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) is offering a $10,000 reward for the “animal” who reportedly tied up two 13-year-olds and sexually assaulted one of them.
Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) revealed that one of his staffers and a friend had been robbed “at gunpoint” by “three men” in Navy Yard, a neighborhood in Washington, DC.
A husband and wife were allegedly attacked by two teenagers while on a date in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood on Friday, Fox32 Chicago reported.
Yet another unprovoked street attack has taken place in New York City, a random man beating a woman with a hockey stick in Manhattan last Tuesday.
Two members of the Illinois Prisoner Review board have stepped down after granting the release of a man who allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend’s 11-year-old son hours after gaining freedom.
An Asian woman in her 60s was killed in a sledgehammer attack on Christmas Eve morning while walking her dog on a college campus in L.A.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson responded to a question on an uptick in most violent crime categories in the city in 2023 by stating that money “for restoration and reparations” will help address the “cycle of violence” in the city.
