Democratic mayors are attempting to claim credit score for last yr’s marked decline in violent crime, yet the staggering 25% drop was nationwide and came in the first yr of President Donald Trump’s new time period.

The cause and impact are apparent: The Trump staff made preventing crime a prime precedence — a reversal from the “criminal justice reform” emphasis of Joe Biden and #Defund Democrats — and got the expected outcomes.

Per Justice Department’s National Crime Victimization Survey, 2025 saw 2.16 million violent incidents — down from 2.83 million in 2024, for the largest single-year drop since 1973.

Aggravated assault fell 31%; motorcar theft, 30%; housebreaking and trespassing, 25%. 

Overall, households suffered roughly 3.5 million fewer property crimes.

America feels safer than it was — with large facet advantages.

Notably, researchers estimate that crime prices America tens of billions of {dollars} every yr; stopping it does the reverse — encouraging funding, financial progress, and jobs.

Note, too, that Democrats opposed the insurance policies that drove the crime drop.

Start with immigration enforcement.

Trump advised Immigration and Customs Enforcement to do its job, and take away criminals who have no proper to be here from the nation.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons advised Congress last May that ICE officers had arrested 44,846 folks with felony expenses or convictions or pending expenses between Jan. 20 and April 23, 2025, up 46% from the same interval the yr before.

He also advised Congress that ICE had eliminated hundreds of gang members from the nation in that time, most of whom had felony information.

Indeed, over 60% of these arrested by ICE in 2025 had pending felony expenses or convictions, per Lyons testimony.

Taking overseas criminals off the streets had a main optimistic profit. And by rooting out overseas gangsters, ICE freed native regulation enforcement to focus on homegrown criminals.

Next, add the National Guard.

Some Democrat-run cities, like LA, refused to let Trump deploy troops. Others, like Memphis, and Washington, DC, cooperated.

The Guard introduced seen policing back to our nation’s capital, making it a far more livable place.

So the irony is that Democrat mayors are taking credit score for a drop in crime they did everything to resist.

Credit should also go to some sturdy native leaders, like NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, whose centered crime-fighting insurance policies have made a large distinction in the metropolis.

Credit, too, goes to voters who threw out George Soros-backed prosecutors across the nation. 

Law-and-order works. Immigration enforcement works. 

And — like it or not — Trump’s insurance policies, including ICE, are making America protected again.

Voters should think about that as they go to the polls, going through candidates who promise to “expel” or abolish ICE: They claim they’re preventing abuses — but the massive loser will be public security.