Lakewood hits historic milestone: no homicides reported in 2025

Lakewood hits historic milestone: no homicides reported in 2025

The city of Lakewood saw a historic drop in crime in 2025, marking its first year in at least two decades without a single homicide.

Zero homicides in 2025 for Lakewood, WA

The city of Lakewood is celebrating a milestone: zero homicides in 2025, according to the police department.

The one type of crime that didn't happen in West Seattle in 2025

At several community meetings during the year, we reported on Seattle Police reps sharing ongoing stats, including noting that the year’s murder rate in the Southwest Precinct remained at zero. While working on a forthcoming followup checking on some of last year’s notable court cases, we realized that the year had ended with that number still at zero, according to the SPD data dashboard and WSB archives. Per the data dashboard, SPD investigated…