Crime Trends in the U.S.

The FBI says violent‑crime arrests across 17 key field offices have nearly doubled to almost 14,000 in President Trump’s first year back in office, compared with roughly 6,000 to 7,000 annually under President Biden, following a stated reorientation of resources toward field operations. Director Kash Patel credited the surge—which includes triple‑ and quadruple‑digit percentage increases in cities such as Buffalo, Jackson, New York, Nashville and Detroit, with Seattle the only office seeing a small decline—to prioritizing gang violence, transnational organized crime and child‑trafficking cases and providing more tools to local bureaus.