FBI Director Kash Patel told bureau personnel that preliminary 2025 crime figures show the sharpest reductions in violent crime and homicide since 1937, citing more than one million fewer violent offenses nationwide.
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FBI Director Kash Patel announced in an internal agency update that preliminary federal crime statistics for 2025 indicate the United States experienced the largest year-over-year drop in violent crime and murder since 1937.
Patel shared the figures while outlining recent enforcement operations and criminal investigations conducted by FBI field offices across the country.
“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,” Patel wrote in the agency-wide communication.
“These historic results are a testament to the hard work you and our partners have been doing — and we’re just getting started,” he added.
The decline in violent crime comes after public safety concerns became a central issue during President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, with crime rates and law enforcement policy drawing sustained national attention.
Patel’s update highlighted several investigations and arrests carried out by FBI offices during the previous week. He commended FBI San Diego personnel for their response following a deadly shooting at a local mosque earlier in the week.
He also referenced a criminal case out of Miami involving a former managing assistant U.S. attorney.
“Also out of FBI Miami, a former managing assistant U.S. Attorney — who supported Jack Smith’s politicized investigation of President Trump — was charged for allegedly stealing secret government documents using her personal email address… and concealing the documents from investigators using fake labels,” Patel stated.
Patel additionally emphasized the bureau’s expanding fraud enforcement operations, particularly in Minnesota, where investigators have pursued multiple large-scale fraud cases.
“FBI Minneapolis announced fraud charges against 15 subjects… indicted for over $90 million in an alleged healthcare fraud scheme,” Patel wrote. “These cases involve the two largest Medicaid fraud cases ever charged in their district… and the first-of-their kind charges involving 7 other Medicaid programs, including fraud targeting an Autism program.”
According to Patel, one of the individuals charged attempted to escape during a raid before being apprehended by federal agents within hours.
“This case is the result of outstanding work by FBI Minneapolis and personnel from throughout the Bureau who have been part of the surge we began last December, and that’s not the only success out of Minneapolis,” he continued.
Patel also pointed to the sentencing of Amiee Bock, whom he identified as the organizer behind the “Feeding Our Future” fraud scheme involving approximately $250 million in alleged losses tied to federal child nutrition programs. Bock received a prison sentence approaching 42 years.
Elsewhere, Patel said FBI personnel located and captured Camron Lee in Mexico. Lee had been sought in connection with allegations that he killed his partner before fleeing the country with their two children.
Federal agents also arrested 14 suspects accused of distributing narcotics, including fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine, according to Patel’s summary.
The FBI director further detailed operations targeting child exploitation and online sexual crimes, stating that agents arrested more than a dozen individuals accused of attempting to lure minors into sexual activity.
Patel also described the arrests of two men accused of distributing AI-generated deepfake pornography.
“These men allegedly posted thousands of nonconsensual images and videos that appeared to depict real victims as nude or engaging in sexual acts,” Patel stated.
The FBI director concluded his message by praising bureau personnel and describing the weekly cases as only a fraction of the agency’s ongoing workload nationwide.
“Every day you are saving lives, keeping people safe, and showing why we’re the best law enforcement agency on earth,” Patel wrote.
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