CORRECTION: BCA issues updated 2025 Uniform Crime Report
Sept. 10, 2026
The BCA has published an amended 2025 Uniform Crime Report to update three pieces of incorrect data in the original report. The changes to the report are as follows:
- Brooklyn Park Police Department had three homicides in 2025. After the BCA was alerted to a possible missing incident, we contacted the agency and have now received reports for two homicides that were not reflected in the Uniform Crime Report. This update also changes the statewide total murders to 132.
- In examining this same series of incidents, we learned that Champlin Police Department had not submitted three aggravated assaults. We reached out to that agency, and those reports have now been submitted to the BCA. The update changes the statewide aggravated assault total to 8,765.
- Carjacking data initially attributed to Inver Grove Heights Police Department should be attributed to Minneapolis Police Department. The Minneapolis Police Department reported 215 carjackings in 2025. Inver Grove Heights Police Department had 0 carjackings in 2025.
None of these changes affect the statewide violent crime rate.
The updated 2025 Uniform Crime Report can be accessed on the BCA website.
Notable data from the 2025 Minnesota Uniform Crime Report
- Violent crime levels declined in 2025. In the seven-county Twin Cities Metro Area (Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and Washington counties), violent crime decreased by 14 percent. Violent crime in greater Minnesota decreased by 9 percent.
- There were 132 murders in 2025 in Minnesota compared with 172 in 2024. Firearms were involved in 70.5 percent of the incidents, down from 75 percent in 2024.
- There were 8,765 aggravated assaults in 2025, which is 11 percent lower than 2024.
- There were 2,188 rapes in 2025, a decrease of 1.9 percent. Most of the rapes occurred in a home (71.8 percent), and 37.5 percent of the victims were minors.
- Motor vehicle theft decreased 22.4 percent in 2025 with 9,803 vehicles stolen as compared with 12,634 in 2024.
- Carjacking incidents (including attempted carjackings) decreased 31 percent with 294 incidents in 2025, compared with 426 in 2024. Carjacking incidents are not counted as motor vehicle thefts.
- There were 64,157 incidents of larceny in 2025 – the lowest number in 57 years.
- Bias crimes remained steady in 2025 with 224 incidents reported.
- Law enforcement use-of-force incidents involving discharge of a firearm dropped in 2025 to 21, 6 fewer than in 2024.
- Law enforcement officers were assaulted in 981 incidents in 2025, a 1.3 percent decrease from 2024.
Violent crimes
| Crime type |
2025 |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murder |
132 |
172 |
182 |
183 |
204 |
| Rape |
2,188 |
2,231 |
2,153 |
2,459 |
2,634 |
| Robbery |
2,054 |
2,838 |
2,792 |
3,269 |
4,009 |
| Aggravated assault |
8,765 |
9,842 |
10,024 |
10,361 |
10,879 |
Property crimes
| Crime type |
2025 |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary |
9,254 |
10,618 |
10,474 |
12,210 |
14,548 |
| Larceny |
64,157 |
71,075 |
73,029 |
85,224 |
88,153 |
| Motor vehicle theft |
9,803 |
12,634 |
15,631 |
16,834 |
14,893 |
| Arson |
500 |
590 |
630 |
630 |
723 |
Additional crime data reported to the BCA
| Crime type |
2025 |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide cleared by arrest or exceptional means * |
78% |
76% |
81% |
80% |
62% |
| Drug abuse violation cleared by arrest |
82% |
81% |
81% |
81% |
80% |
| Bias-motivated incidents |
224 |
228 |
182 |
165 |
241 |
* An incident is cleared by exceptional means if some element beyond law enforcement control prevents filing of formal charges against the offender, such as if the offender has died.
In addition to data measuring criminal activity statewide, the report contains other information required in Minnesota statutes, including the number of law enforcement officers killed or assaulted, firearm discharges by police officers and police pursuits.
Use-of-force incidents
Minnesota agencies reported 21 use-of-force incidents in 2025, 11 fewer than in 2024.
- 6 people died.
- 16 incidents resulted in serious injury requiring medical attention.
- 4 incidents did not result in an injury.
Agencies reported the following race information about people on whom force was used:
- White (12)
- Black (8)
- American Indian or Alaskan Native (4)
- Asian (2)
Stolen vehicle mobile tracking device warrants
The Minnesota Legislature added a new reporting requirement beginning in the 2024 Uniform Crime Report for agencies to report search warrants obtained to maintain a mobile tracking device on a stolen or fleeing vehicle for more than 12 hours. This requirement includes a reporting date range that does not align with all other reporting requirements contained in the Uniform Crime Report. For Aug. 1, 2024, through Aug. 1, 2025, there were three warrants reported.
Minnesota’s violent crime rate dropped to 225 per 100,000 population in 2025. This is the lowest violent crime rate since 2019. Reducing the violent crime rate is one of the measurable goals of Governor Walz’ One Minnesota Plan.
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