The first three months of 2024 saw a "historic" drop in rates of violent crime and murder across the country, according to newly released FBI statistics — but the numbers don't tell the whole story, some analysts say. Data released by the FBI on Monday showed violent crime incidents dropped 15% between January and March this year compared to the same period in 2023. John Lott, the president of the nonprofit right-leaning Crime Prevention Research Center who held a brief role in the Dept....

The latest FBI statistics point to a "historic" drop in crime in the first quarter of this year, Attorney General Merrick Garland says. And this, after a year in which the murder rate fell at one the fastest rates ever recorded, a top criminologist added. "This should be good news for everybody," criminologist Jeff Asher, who analyzed the FBI numbers, told NBC News. "But it's also early June and the trend of the nation's crime rate is always uncertain." The rate of violent...

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