An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.
In 2020, with the onset of the pandemic, murders spiked in the United States. When the FBI released its 2020 crime report on September 27, 2021, it was front-page news in the New York Times the next day. The story highlighted that it was the “biggest one-year increase in homicides… since national records started in 1960.”
So, in 2025, how did the New York Times cover the FBI report documenting the largest annual decrease in homicides ever recorded? The report did not make the front page on August 6, and, as of Wednesday afternoon, the New York Times had not covered the story at all.
If it bleeds, it leads
That’s because NYT is, and has been a garbage publication for over a century.