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Arrests nationwide have fallen to historic lows, report finds

On Thursday, the Council on Criminal Justice released the first comprehensive national arrest analysis, showing the arrest rate in 2024 is 30 percent below 2019.
Arrests plunged during the pandemic, and federal authorities stopped publishing detailed arrest statistics in 2020, prompting the Council on Criminal Justice to reconstruct national trends.
Between 2020 and 2024, arrest rates for Black juveniles surged 45 percent, Asian juveniles 45 percent, while white youth increased 11 percent, and adult arrest rates declined 7 percent.
With arrests of men falling more steeply, women now account for a larger portion of arrests, and adult women’s share nearly doubled from 14 percent to about 27 percent between 1980 and 2020.
Drug-Offense arrests fell sharply, with adult and juvenile rates dropping to about half of 2019 levels, while American Indian and Alaska Native juveniles saw a 4 percent decline amid varied trends.

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