US homicides are way down in 2025

Good news! Thanks to President Trump?

"The homicide rate fell last year to at least a 125-year low, based on projected final-year data. Theories to explain the historic drop range from an influx of federal funding to stepped-up police enforcement, along with longer-term societal shifts, like reduced alcohol consumption and increased time spent alone."

WSJ What's news

Crime Trends in U.S. Cities: Year-End 2025 Update: Homicides in 2025 could drop to the lowest rate ever recorded since 1900

Amazing stuff! Good news!

"When nationwide data for jurisdictions of all sizes is reported by the FBI later this year, there is a strong possibility that homicides in 2025 will drop to about 4.0 per 100,000 residents. That would be the lowest rate ever recorded in law enforcement or public health data going back to 1900, and would mark the largest single-year percentage drop in the homicide rate on record."

Crime Trends in U.S. Cities: Year-End 2025 Update - Council on Criminal Justice

Credits: Human Progress weekly newsletter

Figure 3. Homicide Rates in 35 Cities, 2018–2025 (the 2025 number is different from the above quoted number, because the chart only covers 35 cities and not the whole country)

Israel examines if Iran had role in killing of a senior nuclear scientist at MIT

Serious stuff! Other news report that the killing of this professor is perhaps linked to the killings at Brown University. 

Was he also a Jew? Both Google AI and Bing AI claim it is not confirmed or controversial. Was he a Portuguese crypto Jew? The article below is silent on this subject.

"Israeli officials are examining intelligence from recent days that suggests an Iranian connection to the murder of Prof. Nuno Loureiro, a senior nuclear scientist at MIT, who was shot dead in his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Monday evening.  ...

Prof. Loureiro, who had previously spoken out in favor of Israel, was a 47-year-old Portuguese-born world-renowned plasma and nuclear fusion researcher. ...

The Israeli investigation is being conducted against the backdrop of Loureiro's sensitive field of research. He was considered one of the world's leading researchers in energy and nuclear physics and has served in key roles at research centers related to the development of future technologies. ..."

Israel examines if Iran had role in killing of scientist | The Jerusalem Post "This is an assessment that has not yet been verified and is not supported at this stage by official findings from the investigative authorities in the United States. "

Professor Nuno Loureiro

Son Arrested in stabbing Murder of Rob Reiner and his Wife

Why was their son (age 32) ever homeless? For how long was the son homeless, for years? What parents would allow this to happen to their child?

Of course, there is no excuse for the murder of one's parents!

According to Google search: "The estimated net worth for the late Rob Reiner was approximately $200 million at the time of his death in December 2025."

"Their son Nick Reiner, 32, who struggled with drug addiction and homelessness for years, was arrested and charged with murder and is being held without bail after allegedly attacking his parents during a heated argument. ..."

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Father and son at arms length (Source)

The killer of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has received 6,000 letters in jail in his support

Bizarre! Weird! Strange!

"The number of letters that [killer name], the accused killer of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, has received in jail. Support for [the killer], who is set to appear in state court this week, has proved surprisingly enduring, with fans, social activists and those who fought their own battles with insurers making outsize efforts around the case of the 27-year-old Ivy League graduate."

The Wall Street Journal What's news

Soldier’s wife convicted of murder in husband's shooting death at Fort Riley

Welcome to the age of gender equality! Another Me Too event!

Men watch out in the battle of the sexes! 😊

"An Army wife who shot her husband in the head during a verbal argument at their Fort Riley, Kan., home and then fled with her children without calling emergency services, has been convicted of murder in federal court."

Soldier’s wife convicted of murder in his shooting death at Fort Riley | Stars and Stripes

Jack the Ripper’s identity revealed after DNA match, 137 years later

Amazing stuff!

How El Salvador’s murder rate fell 98% in nine years

Good news! From over 6,000 homicides in 2015 to just over 100 homicides in 2024.

Heroisierung des New Yorker CEO Mörders: Die Opfer-Täter-Umkehr macht eine fatale Karriere

Das Ganze ist absolut widerlich! 

Dieser feige, niederträchtige Mörder hat seinem wehrlosen, ahnungslosen Opfer aufgelauert und dann in den Rücken geschossen!

Luigi Mangione wird zu einem Robin Hood stilisiert "Noch selten hat ein Gewaltverbrecher so viele Sympathiebekundungen erhalten wie Luigi M., der mutmaßlich den United-Healthcare-CEO erschossen hat. Es ist eine perverse moralische Umwertung."

Die menschenverachtende Symbolik des Mörders!

Alarmierende Daten zur Sicherheit: Im Jahr 2023 wurden 938 Frauen ermordet, über 200 der Opfer waren 60 Jahre alt oder älter

Was geht da vor sich in der Bananenrepublik D!

Wie sieht es mit Gewalt gegen Frauen aus, bei denen die Opfer überleben?

"... Interessant auch die neuen Informationen zu den 853 Tätern: 32 Prozent, also fast ein Drittel, sind Nicht-Deutsche – bei einem Bevölkerungsanteil von 15,2 Prozent. ...

unter diesen Opfern auch 46 Mädchen, die jünger als sechs Jahre waren, und 30, die im Alter zwischen sechs und 14 Jahren starben. Die meisten weiblichen Mordopfer (206) waren 60 Jahre und älter, 178 Frauen wurden im Alter von 30 bis 40 Jahren getötet. ...

Die Anzahl der weiblichen Mordopfer innerfamiliärer Gewalt stieg von 165 (2021) auf 185 (2023), jene der Todesopfer bei Partnerschaftsgewalt von 305 (2021) auf 340 (2023). ..."

Alarmierende Daten zur Sicherheit: In nur einem Jahr wurden 938 Frauen ermordet "Die vorgelegten Zahlen zur Gewalt gegen Frauen sind alarmierend: Von 2019 bis 2023 stieg die Anzahl der Frauenmörder oder jener Täter, die ihre Opfer derart schwer misshandelt haben, dass diese daran verstarben, von 747 auf 853. Davon sind 32 Prozent Nicht-Deutsche – bei einem Bevölkerungsanteil von 15,2 Prozent. Allein im Vorjahr wurden 938 Frauen getötet. ..."

Austrian woman is found guilty of grossly negligent homicide by fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19. Her second, separate pandemic-related conviction!

Wow! Austria rarely makes any news!

I am not familiar with the details of this case and the news article does not quite explicitly covers the issue of intention and deliberation, but it appears the woman acted intentionally.

"A woman in Austria was found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19 in 2021, her second pandemic-related conviction in a year, according to local media. A judge sentenced the 54-year-old on Thursday to four months’ suspended imprisonment and an 800-euro fine ($886.75) for grossly negligent homicide.
The victim, who was also a cancer patient, died of pneumonia that was caused by the coronavirus, according to Austrian news agency APA. A virological report showed that the virus DNA matched both the deceased and the 54-year-old woman, proving that the defendant “almost 100 percent” transmitted it, an expert told the court. ..."

Austrian woman is found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19 | AP News

Credits: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Global Health NOW

South African Private Firms Expand in face of Rising Violent Crime with Palki Sharma

Very recommendable! However, Palki errs that only rich people can afford private security. That's blatantly wrong!

Remember, this is the country that recently announced it wants to sue  Israel over genocide in Gaza before the International Court of Justice!

South African rapper, Kiernan 'AKA' Forbes shot dead

This was one of the most soft spoken police officers I have ever heard in my life!

Labor Day weekend: 58 people shot in Chicago including 8 children

Every weekend the tragedy of killing of innocent children and people goes on in big cities like Chicago! Many of these victims are black Americans!

Why is this racist fool Mayor Lightfoot still not removed from office. She has so much blood on her hands! She is definitely not fit for office! Her credentials: "Lightfoot is the first openly lesbian African-American woman to be elected mayor of a major city in the United States.". The Dimocratic Party is in charge!

The Dimocratic Party need to be held accountable for such grave failures!  

Labor Day weekend: 58 people shot in Chicago, 4-year-old boy Mychal Moultry - TheBlaze

In Chicago, 116 people have been killed so far in 2021

Why are we so focused on the latest Atlanta, GA and Boulder, Co mass shootings when just in Chicago alone in the first 80 days of this year 116 people were killed (not all by gun shots)! This translates into more than 16 homicides per week! The homicide statistics of other Dimocratic Party run big cities (e.g. LA, Baltimore, NYC) look similar despite heightened gun control measures! That is the real and long time scandal the Dimocratic Party tries to cover up!

This is called exploitation of carefully selected gun violence for political purposes! Deplorable! It is shameful! It is racist, because plenty of this gun violence involves black Americans!

"The majority of the victims of homicide in Chicago are young, black men." and certainly the large majority of them are not killed by white cops!

Why the Chicago Tribune shows so many unknown causes (roughly 2/3) of homicides is a riddle to me! Does it perhaps mean they can not keep up with determining the cause of the homicides in Chicago, because there are so many? How they treat multiple injuries vs. gun shot wounds I did not investigate, but my hunch is that it is not counted as killed by gun shot!

Tracking Chicago homicide victims - Chicago Tribune 

Indien: Mann tötet Ehefrau bei zweitem Versuch mit Giftschlange

What a story! Andere Länder, andere Sitten! (Vorsicht: Ironie)

Indien: Mann tötet Ehefrau bei zweitem Versuch mit Giftschlange Die Polizei geht von Habgier als Motiv aus: In Indien tötet ein Mann seine Ehefrau, indem er ihr eine Kobra ins Bett legt. Sie hatte sich erst von einem Angriff mit einer Viper erholt.

Secrets in the Brains of People Who Have Committed Murder

Amazing stuff! Are we coming finally closer to answer an age old question what distinguishes individuals who murder other humans? What is a criminal mind? Will we finally be able to offer treatments before the murder happens? Quite possible!

Kudos to the principal investigator of this comprehensive and carefully designed study, Kent Kiehl! What an enormous effort over several years!

"... the 200 men who had committed homicide showed significantly reduced gray matter in several brain regions that play important roles in behavioral control and social cognition ... As in the current study ... deployed the mobile scanner to collect MRI scans of the incarcerated teens in New Mexico and discovered differences between those who had committed homicide and their imprisoned peers. The homicide offenders “had significantly less gray matter volume in parts of their temporal lobes,” Cope says. When Kiel compared the data from that study with the results of his latest project, he found a high degree of overlap.  . . . we found and replicated every region that was different in the boys and was different in the adult males, and in the same way,” ... The latest study’s finding that MRI data can distinguish homicide offenders not only from people who committed non-violent crimes, but also from those who performed other violent crimes"

Secrets in the Brains of People Who Have Committed Murder | The Scientist Magazine®: MRI scans from more than 800 incarcerated men pinpoint distinct structural features of people who have committed homicide, compared with those who carried out other crimes.

Yoko Ono’s Bloody Gun Control Campaign

The Bloody Glasses Of Her Murdered Husband
John Lennon

Yoko Ono, now 80 years old, is still a political activist. However, her latest campaign using a picture of the bloody glasses of her murdered husband who was brutally killed in 1980 at close range in the presence of Ms. Ono near Central Park (NYC) by a deranged man with a gun is a tasteless appeal to emotions or is it just a desperate publicity stunt.

I was not aware that Ms. Ono used this photo before: “Ono turned her attention to gun violence with a series of tweets that all included the image, which she also used on the cover of her 1981 album Season of Glass.” (Rolling Stone).

Didn’t they say for a long time one of the reasons why the Beatles broke up was Yoko Ono. Perhaps, there is more truth to that than I as a Beatles fan previously thought.

The Deranged Murder Of John Lennon

Yoko Ono to blame guns for the murder of her husband is more than frivolous. If only half is true what you can read about the murderer, i.e. Mark David Chapman, on Wikipedia, then this man was deeply troubled for years. He could as well have stabbed John Lennon from whom he personally received an autograph at the scene of the murder just hours before he killed him. There was even a photograph taken of this scene of the book signing by John Lennon.

The murder even told his wife about his intention to kill John Lennon, but his wife failed to report her husband (see Wikipedia article about the murderer). So much for individual responsibility!

Yoko Ono’s Statistics Are Damned Lies

Manipulating statistics for political purposes is a widespread plague. At age 80, I expect someone to be wiser and smarter.

When Ms. Ono tweets "Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980." then this is highly disingenuous, because this number apparently includes suicides committed with a firearm (CDC suicides & homicides). You do the math.

Falling Homicides Thanks To Advances In Medicine

Front Page News

The Wall Street Journal on 12/8/2012 published a long front page article titled “In Medical Triumph, Homicides Fall Despite Soaring Gun Violence” (subscription required).

Some excerpts from this article:

“Improved medical care doesn’t account for the entire decline in homicides but it experts say it is a major factor.”

“… more people survive because of the spread of hospital trauma centers … the increased use of helicopters … better training of first responders …”

“… the estimated number of people wounded seriously … by gunshots … rose 47%  to 30,759 in 2011 from 20,844 in 2011 …”

Confirmation Of Anecdotal Evidence

This article kind of confirms observations such as the famous almost miraculous survival of former Congress woman Gabrielle Gifford despite a gun shot in the head at close range.

Not least since the first Gulf War, we have learnt of dramatic improvements in medicine that saved the lives of severely injured US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Future Is Even Brighter

I believe strongly, that the excellent care that Congress woman Gifford received is only the beginning for future gunshot victims. I surmise, in a few years we are able to restore damaged brain cells.