The data displays the reported violent crime in the U.S. from 1990 to 2016. In 2016, an estimated 1,248,185 violent crimes occurred nationwide.
Violent crime in the U.S.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that violent crime fell nationwide in the period from 1990 to 2015. Violent crime was at a height of 1.93 million crimes in 1992, but has since reached a low of 1.15 million violent crimes in 2014. When conducting crime reporting, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program considered murder, nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault to be violent crimes, because they are offenses which involve force or threat of violence.
