CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland’s drop in homicides mirrors a significant national decline in the crime, which is hitting a 125-year low across the nation.
That’s according to a new report from the Council on Criminal Justice. The projected rate of 4.0 murders per 100,000 people would mark the lowest homicide rate since 1900, breaking the previous record low of 4.4 per 100,000 set in 2014.
The findings come from the CCJ’s sixteenth report on crime trends since 2020, with data compiled from open data portals maintained by local law enforcement agencies and city governments across 35 cities with populations over 200,000…