PHOENIX (AZFamily) — As the city heads into the new year, newly released 2025 Uniform Crime Reporting data from the Phoenix Police Department shows homicides and total violent crimes are down compared with the past two years.
The decline is seen when comparing the same time periods in 2023 and 2024, though community advocates say more work remains.
Since 2023, both criminal homicides and total violent crime have been trending downward in the nation’s fifth-largest city…