FBI Director Kash Patel said Nov. 26 that homicide rates nationwide plummeted 25 percent compared to last year.
“I’m happy to announce, finally, that one of the big targets we had for this year, obviously, was to reduce the murder rate across America,” Patel told The Epoch Times’ Jan Jekielek, during an exclusive interview set to air on EpochTV at 5 p.m. ET on Nov. 29.
“This FBI is going to be releasing murder rates in December, which is the lowest it has been in modern history, by double digits.”
The murder rate in 2024 was 5 per 100,000 people, down 15.8 percent from the year before and about 1 percent higher than in 2015, according to Department of Justice data published in August.
Approximately 17,000 people were murdered in the United States in 2024, representing a drop of about 15 percent from the prior year but an increase of nearly 7 percent from 2015, the statistics show.
More details about this year’s data are coming in next month, according to Patel.
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