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Verifyable statistics from the cited sources or official data show year-over-year declines for rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, shooting deaths (including the claim of fewest since 2015), on-duty officer deaths (including an 80-year low), traffic fatalities, and overdose deaths for the referenced period.
Multiple credible data sources and year-end 2025 reports show broad declines in several violence and public‑safety measures in 2025: homicide/murders fell to multi‑decade lows, shooting deaths (non‑suicide shootings) declined to levels not seen since about 2015, on‑duty law‑enforcement fatalities fell to the lowest annual total in roughly 80 years (NLEOMF preliminary data), and provisional CDC data show a substantial drop in drug‑overdose deaths compared with 2023/2024 projections. Major‑city aggregated reports and crime‑trend analyses (Major Cities Chiefs/Policing groups; Council on Criminal Justice; Gun Violence Archive/The Trace) also report declines in reported rapes, robberies and many aggravated‑assault measures across large samples of cities in 2025. However, national final official datasets (FBI/CDC/NHTSA) for 2025 remain provisional or incomplete in places; some measures (aggravated assault, traffic fatalities, and rape) show variation by jurisdiction and are not uniformly declined nationwide in final data. Verdict: Close — the article’s summary is broadly supported by available provisional and city‑level data, but the wording overstates uniform national declines and relies on provisional/selected datasets rather than finalized nationwide counts.