New data from the Department of Justice’s annual victim survey shows violent crime plummeted 25 percent in 2025, marking the largest single-year decline in the survey’s history, under President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans’ leadership.
“While Democrats like Abdul El-Sayed and James Talarico have called to defund the police and backed other soft-on-crime policies that enable violent criminals, President Trump and Senate Republicans are making American communities safe again,” said NRSC National Press Secretary Bernadette Breslin.
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“Aggravated assaults fell 31%, robberies were down 27%, motor vehicle theft fell 29% and overall property crimes fell 19% in the data, which comes from a survey of more than 100,000 households. All of those are also records for the survey, which has been carried out for more than 50 years.”
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“According to the victim data, the U.S. saw about 75,000 rapes and sexual assaults in 2025, down from 138,359 a year earlier.”