Our quarterly series presents just the statistics on various measures since Trump reentered the White House.
Trump’s Numbers, July 2026 Update
Issues: crime
Trump’s Numbers, April 2026 Update
Our first quarterly update of various economic and social indicators under Trump’s second term as president.
Trump’s Numbers, Second Term
At the one-year mark of Trump’s second term, we launch our “numbers” series, providing various statistical measures of his presidency thus far.
The Whoppers of 2025
Our annual recap of the worst falsehoods of the year.
Pritzker’s Inaccurate Pushback on Chicago Murder Rate Claim
Defending Chicago in a recent Fox News interview, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said it was “not in the top 30” of “big cities” with the highest rates of murder. But in 2024, Chicago had the 15th highest murder rate among U.S. cities with at least 250,000 residents, according to FBI data. It ranked higher if limiting to cities with even larger populations.
Q&A on Trump’s Attempt to Deploy National Guard to Portland and Chicago
While President Donald Trump’s rhetoric regarding Portland and Chicago has largely focused on overall crime, National Guard deployments are specifically targeted at protecting federal immigration operations and facilities. Here, we’ll unravel some of the rhetoric about what’s happening in those cities, what the Trump administration is doing and under what authority, and what the courts have had to say about it so far.
Biden’s Final Numbers
Statistical indicators of President Biden’s four years in office.
Adding Context to Trump’s Misleading Claims About Crime in Chicago
President Donald Trump said on Truth Social on Sept. 2, “CHICAGO IS THE MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD!” That’s not the case, experts told us, and Chicago’s overall homicide rate declined more than 30% in the first six months of this year as compared with last year.
D.C. Homicide-Free Streak Not First in ‘Years’
While signing executive orders at the White House on Aug. 25, President Donald Trump wrongly said that an 11-day span of no homicides in Washington, D.C., was the “first time that’s taken place in years,” a claim reiterated by other members of the administration who credited Trump’s federal takeover of the district’s law enforcement.
Trump Distorts Violent Crime Statistics in Ordering Takeover and Troops to D.C.
President Donald Trump inaccurately claimed that the murder rate in Washington, D.C., “reached the highest rate probably ever” in 2023, and he ignored a decline in murders since then to justify a federal takeover of the city’s law enforcement.