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Trump suggests more US cities need National Guard but crime stats tell a different story
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Trump suggests more US cities need National Guard but crime stats tell a different story

  • By ED WHITE and CHRISTOPHER L. KELLER Associated Press
  • Updated

President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the National Guard to Chicago and other big cities as a way to fight crime. Yet, behind the aggressive talk, data actually shows that most U.S. violent crime has been in a steady decline. Homicides through the first six months of 2025 were down significantly in Chicago, New York City, Seattle, Baltimore, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon. It's a continuation of a trend since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Aggravated assaults were also down, with the exception of New York, where they were virtually unchanged. The Associated Press relied on numbers from AH Datalytics, which tracks crimes across the country.