November 22, 2025
There’s some interesting data in the FBI’s 2024 crime statistics
By Charles Sullivan
In August, the FBI released its report on national crime statistics for 2024. Over 14 million crimes were reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) by participating law enforcement authorities, including state, county, city, university, and tribal agencies.
I was unable to find any comprehensive published analysis of the 2024 data, so I did my own partial study. I was able to extract pertinent data from the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer. I created six tables that I thought might be of interest to American Thinker readers: state violent crime data, state property crime data, and state total crime data.
In each case, there are two charts: one showing the information in alphabetical order by state, and the other in descending order. Because the charts occupy a lot of vertical space, they appear at the bottom of this essay.
Based on the data I was able to extract, here are a few interesting points:
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