On April 2, 2025, the City of St. Louis Office of the Mayor and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department held its Quarterly Crime Report to update the community on year-to-date crime rates from January through March of 2025.
As of today, the City of St. Louis has seen a continued decline in violent crime, with the lowest number of year-to-date homicides recorded since 2005. The Department’s homicide clearance rate currently stands at 100%.1
For the first three months of 2025, overall crime is down 28% compared to this time last year, and down nearly 50% compared to the same time frame in 2023.
While the City of St. Louis has seen a historic decrease in homicides, which is sign of progress, an uptick of robberies occurred during the weekly CompStat reporting period from 3/17/2025 to 3/23/2025. However, SLMPD officers and detectives have diligently worked on robbery investigations, to include several carjackings wherein five individuals were arrested for a string of carjackings that occurred during the weekend of March 28 through March 29.
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- Clearance Rate: The clearance rate is calculated by dividing the total number of Homicides cases cleared in a calendar year by the total number of homicides that occurred in a calendar year. Cases listed as cleared can be for homicides that took place in the current year or previous years. ↩︎
