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U.S. Crime Rates Projected To Drop In 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been traveling this week to push an effort to crack down on crime. Meanwhile, a new report says data undercut claims that the U.S. is experiencing a crime wave.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions holds a news conference at the Department of Justice on Dec. 15, highlighting his department's fight to reduce violent crime.

This week alone, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has visited three states to push the Justice Department's efforts to crack down on what he describes as a crime wave sweeping the nation.

And while crime levels have risen the past two consecutive years from historic lows, by the Brennan Center for Justice at

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