Crime covers offense patterns, charging and clearance data, victim outcomes and the criminology behind the numbers. Articles cite the data set, note its gaps, and avoid treating a single quarter as a trend. Written for reporters, analysts, policy staff and residents who want crime coverage with its arithmetic shown.
Crime coverage from Daily Detective News.
Per FBI published data, murder fell roughly 12 percent in 2023 and about 14 percent more in 2024 — and no single policy, policing change, or economic factor accounts for a decline that size across the whole country.
Per FBI published data, roughly half of recent homicides were never cleared, and the cases that go unsolved cluster by victim, by place, and by a detective's first days on the file.
The FBI's hate crime numbers are a voluntary patchwork: per the 2023 release, more than 11,800 incidents were reported — while hundreds of agencies, including entire state systems, submitted nothing at all.
A recidivism rate is only as specific as its definition: per BJS's landmark studies, about 68 percent of released prisoners were arrested within three years — but arrests, convictions, and re-imprisonment tell three different stories.
Decades of FBI records show violence and most property crime rising in summer and falling in winter — a pattern stable enough that analysts adjust for it before declaring any trend.
Exceptional clearance closes an offense with no arrest and no prosecution, on the agency's own judgment — a status researchers say is used unevenly enough to distort the clearance rates built on it.