Overview
- City police report a 31% year-over-year drop in killings to 133 from 194 in 2024, producing the third-lowest homicide rate per 100,000 residents since 1975.
- Baltimore Police adopted FBI guidance that assigns deaths to the year of injury, removing four historical cases from 2025 totals, and a late ruling of suicide lowered the final count from 134 to 133.
- Nonfatal shootings declined by roughly 25% in 2025 as overall violent crime continued to fall across most categories.
- Youth homicides fell sharply, with three victims under 18 in 2025 compared with 14 the prior year.
- Leaders credit combined efforts by law enforcement, prosecutors and community programs such as GVRS, even as friction surfaced when State’s Attorney Ivan Bates ended direct coordination with MONSE.