ROCKFORD, IL — Rockford in 2025 recorded the fewest annual killings in the city in more than two decades.
Rockford Police Department detectives investigated 12 homicides in 2025, down from 18 in 2024 and 20 in 2023, according to city records.
The 12 homicides from last year represents a 33% decrease from 2024 and a 67% decrease from the 36 killings investigated by Rockford police in 2020 during the global pandemic. It is the fewest homicides recorded in a full year since there were eight in 2004…