FBI Director Kash Patel just announced what might be the single most satisfying statistic in modern American history: preliminary FBI crime data for 2025 shows the largest decreases in violent crime and murder since 1937 — an almost 90-year low — with 1.1 million fewer violent crimes than the year prior. That includes massive drops in aggravated assaults, rapes, and robberies.
Remember when they said defund the police? We funded them. Remember when they said crime is just poverty? We arrested people. Turns out that works.
Patel didn't mince words. "Our preliminary FBI crime data for 2025 shows the single largest decreases in violent crime and murder since 1937 — an almost 90 year low, with 1.1 million fewer violent crimes than the year prior — including huge decreases across the board in aggravated assaults, rapes, and robberies," he said. Those aren't talking points. Those are receipts.
"These historic results are a testament to the hard work you and our partners have been doing — and we're just getting started," Patel added. Just getting started. Let that marinate for the folks who spent four years telling us that law enforcement was the problem.
But the FBI under Patel isn't just posting stats — they're doing the work. FBI Minneapolis took down a $90 million healthcare fraud scheme, charging 15 subjects in first-of-their-kind charges involving 7 Medicaid programs. FBI Miami arrested 14 individuals for narcotics trafficking. Agents captured fugitive Camron Lee in Mexico after he allegedly killed his partner and fled with two children. They're cracking down on child exploitation and going after criminals posting thousands of nonconsensual AI deepfake images.
This is what happens when you stop using the FBI as a political weapon against your domestic opponents and start pointing it at, you know, actual criminals.
"Every day you are saving lives, keeping people safe, and showing why we're the best law enforcement agency on earth," Patel told agents. Compare that to the previous regime, where the Bureau's leadership was more interested in raiding a former president's home and protecting Jack Smith's investigations than keeping Americans safe.
The numbers don't lie. 1.1 million fewer violent crimes. The biggest drop since 1937. As American Wire News reported, these are the kind of results that make the left's "crime is a social construct" crowd break out in hives.
Here's the bottom line: we were told for years that tough-on-crime policies were racist, backward, and ineffective. We were told that the answer was social workers, not squad cars. We were told that enforcing the law was the real crime. And now? An almost 90-year record.
Funny how that works when you let law enforcement do its job.
