FBI report disproves Trump’s claim of a Biden-era out-of-control crime wave

The 2025 figure to be published next year is expected to rise significantly to reflect homeland security department (DHS) claims that assaults on immigration and customs enforcement agency (Ice) officers have risen 830% since Trump's second term began in January.

Prosecutors, however, have dropped or refused to pursue charges against numerous individuals citing false and misleading reports by immigration officers and video footage showing those accused of assaults were actually the victims...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/fbi-report-trump-biden-crime-wave?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Data on Biden-era crime rates shreds Republican talking points

But crime rates offer a great example of how contemporary Republican politics rejects the intuitive rules for a different model. To the extent that reality still has meaning, Biden has a compelling story to tell: Crime rates, most notably murder rates, spiked toward the end of his Republican predecessor's term. Under the incumbent Democratic president's leadership, Americans are now safer...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/data-biden-era-crime-rates-shreds-republican-talking-points-rcna156717   

On eve of Trump's New York hush money trial, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg touts drop in violent crime - ABC News

"I'm not going to talk about any one particular defendant -- I don't think that would be appropriate or any one active case -- but what I will say is 1,500 committed public servants come there every day focused on doing the right thing for the right reason in the right way," Bragg said, noting that prosecutions for gun-related offenses and hate crimes are up…

https://abcnews.go.com/US/eve-trumps-new-york-hush-money-trial-manhattan/story

Opinion | Republicans won’t tell you the homicide rate and other crime is just as bad where they’re in charge - The Washington Post

"Murder rates are actually higher in Republican, Trump-voting states that haven't even flirted with ideas like defund the police," including places that have been "GOP bastions for the last quarter of a century."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/22/crime-murder-rates-republican-cities/

Republicans revive soft-on-crime rhetoric amid rise in US homicides

…But experts also point out that although crime rates may be on the rise in the US, they are still nowhere near the heights they were in past decades. In New York in 1990, for instance, the city saw more than 2,200 killings. In 2020 there were 468...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/04/republicans-attack-democrats-crime-increase