Violent crime drops sharply in Trump's second term

🗞️ Story file #972

Violent crime drops sharply in Trump's second term

Oct 26, 12 PM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET

13outlets carried it
🫏1 · 0 · 12🐘left · center · right
1.7 dayson the front pages
12front pages at once, at its peak
14 minof TV captions

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 26, 12 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Washington Times
Oct 26, 7 PM ETpeak: on 12 front pages
Oct 27, 10 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 26, 12 PM to Oct 28, 6 AM ET (peak 12), by the outlets' lean: left · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 quoted: “historic”

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (3 wordings): “Exclusive: National Crime Victimization Survey Shows Violent Crime Plummeted in 2025” → “Exclusive: National Crime Victimization Survey Shows Violent Crime Plummeted”
Red State (2 wordings): “Crime Falls Off a Cliff: Survey Shows Violent Crime Down 25 Percent in Trump's First Year Back” → “Crime Crime Falls Off a Cliff: Survey Shows Violent Crime Down 25 Percent in Trump's First Year Back Teri Christoph”

Every outlet's first headline (13), left to right by AllSides rating

CBS News Violent crime victimization fell 25% in 2025, DOJ survey shows Oct 26, 10 AM ET
The Epoch Times Violent Crime Dropped 25 Percent in 2025, Justice Department Says Oct 26, 7 PM ET
The Washington Times Violent crime saw biggest-ever drop in 2025 in victims survey Oct 26, 12 PM ET
Washington Examiner DOJ survey shows ‘historic’ 25% decrease in violent crime between 2024 and 2025 Oct 26, 9 AM ET
Breitbart Exclusive: National Crime Victimization Survey Shows Violent Crime Plummeted in 2025 Oct 26, 10 AM ET
New York Post Violent crimes have single largest annual drop ever recorded during first year of Trump’s second term: DOJ report Oct 26, 12 PM ET
Newsmax DOJ Report: Violent, Property Crime Fell in 2025 Oct 26, 10 AM ET
Red State Crime Falls Off a Cliff: Survey Shows Violent Crime Down 25 Percent in Trump's First Year Back Oct 26, 12 PM ET
The Blaze Crime rates PLUMMET under Trump, says new DOJ report Oct 27, 4 PM ET
The Daily Signal New Federal Crime Numbers Show Dramatic One-Year Drop After Trump’s First Year of the Second Term Oct 26, 10 AM ET
The Daily Wire Violent Crime Plummets After Trump’s Nationwide Crackdown Oct 26, 10 AM ET
The Western Journal Winning: Violent Crime Plunged Nationwide During Trump's First Year Back in Office Oct 26, 2 PM ET
Townhall Violent Crime Plunged Domestically As New Stats Paint Hopeful Picture Oct 26, 6 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN14 min

Fox News8 s

GAS IN TRUMP'S SECOND TERM NOW MORE EXPENSIVE THAN UNDER BIDEN CNN, 7 min
TOP TRUMP ENERGY ADVISER ON HIGH GAS PRICES CNN, 4 min
How long should it really take for gas prices to drop? What is a reasonable lead time? | mean, will the next president get credit? CNN, 3 min
TRUMP: U.S. "MAKING A FORTUNE" OFF HIGHER OIL PRICES CNN, 54 s
DOJ REPORT: VIOLENT CRIME PLUMMETED UNDER TRUMP Fox News, 8 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📺 Ben Shapiro 🎙️ Morning Wire

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Donald Trump

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.