Violent crime and theft fell sharply during President Donald Trump’s first year in office, according to the Justice Department’s annual crime survey released Monday.
By 2025, fewer Americans will report being victims of heinous crimes such as robbery, rape, aggravated assault, vehicle theft or home invasion, according to the Department of Justice’s latest National Crime Victimization Survey. The survey, conducted annually by the Census Bureau and analyzed by the Department of Justice, tracks victim-reported crimes.
“This report proves that President Trump’s ‘Make America Safe Again’ agenda is working,” Deputy Attorney General Stanley Woodward told The Daily Telegraph. “Under the leadership of President Trump and Attorney General Branch, the safety of law-abiding Americans will always come first. This success reinforces our commitment to ensuring that every American can live, work, and raise their families without fear.”
The survey found that total violent crime victimizations, including rape/sexual assault, robbery and aggravated assault, dropped 25% in 2025, with 669,000 fewer violent crimes reported than in 2024. In 2024, there were 8.2 million reported victims of violent crime, compared with 7.5 million in 2025.
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Within the violent crime category, aggravated assault is down 31%, robbery is down 27%, property crime is down 19%, burglary/trespass is down 25% and motor vehicle theft is down 29%. The declines in these categories were the largest one-year declines in the history of the survey, which began in 1973, according to the Justice Department.
The decline in violent crime reported by the public is consistent with the FBI’s findings of a decline in violent crime through 2025. The Bureau estimated The murder rate is 4.1 per 100,000 people, the lowest level in more than half a century.
Since the start of his second term, Trump has taken an aggressive stance on crime, dispatching federal law enforcement to crime-ridden cities across the country, including New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Memphis, Tennessee.
According to data shared by the U.S. Marshals Service with The Daily Wire, one year after federal law enforcement was dispatched to Memphis, murders dropped 37%, sexual assaults dropped 30%, robberies dropped 47%, and aggravated assaults dropped 29%. In one year, the Memphis federal task force arrested 13,000 people and seized more than 2,200 illegal firearms.
The success of the Memphis crime-fighting operation was the result of close collaboration with state officials, including Republican Gov. Bill Lee and the Tennessee National Guard. Polls show the surge in enforcement is overwhelmingly popular with Tennesseans.
DC working group found similar success A year later, 6,000 people were arrested, including 35 murder suspects and 100 gang members. The task force also found 25 missing children and confiscated more than 2,000 illegal guns.