Crime

Alexandra Stinson | 2.6.2026 3:48 PM

When Donald Trump ran for president in 2024, he said he'd "restore law and order." The White House is now taking a victory lap on this campaign promise.

On Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt touted a January report from the Council on Criminal Justice, which found "that the murder rate across America's largest cities plummeted in 2025 to its lowest level since at least 1900," according to Leavitt, who added that this was "the largest single-year drop in murders in recorded history."

"This dramatic decline," she said, "is what happens when a president secures the border, fully mobilizes federal law enforcement to arrest violent criminals and aggressively deport the worst of the worst illegal aliens from our country."

The decline is noteworthy,........

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