BBC Verify assesses claims by the Trump administration that crime and murder in the US are at their lowest levels for 125 years.

The most recent Major Cities Chiefs Association survey – made up of preliminary statistics compiled from 67 law enforcement agencies in the US and Canada – shows homicides dropped about 19% last year ...

Murders across the U.S. dropped last year to a historic low, according to researchers, marking a dramatic turnaround after violent crime surged in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and as left-wing ...

The United States is set to see the largest one-year decline in murders ever recorded, according to a crime data analyst. Jeff Asher, the co-founder of AH Datalytics, says the Real-Time Crime Index ...

Murders, overall violent crime and property crime are at their lowest rates in decades, but it’s unclear whether they are at record lows going back 125 years. See the sources for this fact-check ...