Last year will likely register the lowest national homicide rate in 125 years, according to a newly released analysis. The Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan think tank, estimated based on currently available data from U.

The United States remains in a multiyear trend of falling rates of homicides and other crimes in cities nationwide, ushering in a period of relative safety that rivals the years before the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis of data from more than 100 police departments.