Refund the Police Crime Tracker — Crime Is Down. Keep It That Way.

Live City Crime Overview

Every city. Every day.

Each city is compared against itself over the same period last year, using its own official data. Crime is trending down in 19 of 25 tracked cities. Definitions and reporting windows vary by city — see methodology.

●LIVE — refreshes from city API YTD 2026 Q1 2026 FY 2025 LIMITED DATA

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Community Refund Meter · Now Verified

Real dollars. On the record.

The old meter took your word for it. This one counts confirmed donations — processed by every.org, granted 100% to official police foundations, and publicly auditable. Every dollar below was raised through this site. Same energy. Real receipts.

Verified · every.org

confirmed to local PD foundations

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23cities metered

25cities tracked

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100% of every donation goes to the foundation. Standard card processing applies (or $0 by bank transfer); every.org's optional tip is yours to decline. Receipts come from every.org, a 501(c)(3) public charity — this site never touches a cent. Audit the targets ↓

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Refund the Police

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Crime is dropping. Cops still have day jobs. Help your local police department keep the streets safe, clean, and GTA-6-level peaceful — before launch, and long after.

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100% goes to the foundation. Donations for 23 cities are processed by every.org (a 501(c)(3) public charity) and land on the verified meter — standard card fees apply, or $0 by bank; every.org's optional tip is declinable; your tax receipt arrives by email. Dallas & New York route to their foundations' own sites (verified EINs — see the two exceptions) and aren't metered.

The Two Exceptions

Honesty over inflation.

Two cities can't be metered through every.org yet. We say so loudly instead of faking it — the meter is only worth something if every dollar on it is real.

★ Verified 501(c)(3) · Direct donation

Dallas

EIN 41-2777292 · IRS determination MAR 2026

The Dallas Police Foundation is brand new — so new it hasn't reached every.org's charity index yet. We verified it in the IRS's own records, so your gift is real and tax-deductible — it just goes directly to the foundation, and direct gifts can't show on our meter.

Donate direct ↗ Our patrol checks every.org weekly — the moment Dallas appears, it joins the meter automatically.

● Direct donation · Not metered

New York

EIN 13-2711338 · 501(c)(3) since 1971

The NYC Police Foundation is listed on every.org, but donations are switched off there — so we send you to the foundation's own secure donate page. Your gift is just as real and just as deductible; it simply can't be counted here. We'd rather show a smaller true number than a bigger fake one.

Donate direct ↗

The Receipts

25 cities. 25 verified EINs.

Every donation target on this site, verified against the IRS Publication 78 / Business Master File (June 11, 2026). Federal records or it doesn't ship.

City	Foundation	EIN	Route	Verify

every.org metered & verified — donations land on the meter via a public fundraiser anyone can audit. direct the foundation's own site — verified EIN, not metered. ★ Austin's foundation rebranded in 2024; its IRS registration (and every.org page) carries the legal name Austin Cops for Charities — same EIN, same charity, new jacket.

The Theory

Coincidence? Maybe. Legendary? Absolutely.

U.S. crime has been falling at record rates heading into the biggest game launch in history. Criminologists credit better violence intervention, post-pandemic normalization, and policing investments. We credit the fact that nobody — nobody — wants to be doing 5-to-10 in a bunk bed on November 19, 2026. Either way: the numbers below are real.

“Murders in the U.S. fell roughly 20% in 2025 — the largest single-year drop on record, surpassing 2024’s then-record 15% decline. The national homicide rate (~4.1 per 100k) may be the lowest the FBI has ever recorded.”

Jeff Asher / Jeff-alytics, Dec 2025

“Homicides dropped 21% in 2025 across 40 large U.S. cities — potentially the lowest murder rate since 1900 — with carjackings down 61% since 2023 and violent crime at or below pre-pandemic levels.”

Council on Criminal Justice via CBS News, Jan 2026

“Murder is down ~19% year-to-date through April 2026 in a 30-city sample, putting 2026 on pace for the lowest U.S. murder rate ever recorded — potentially below 4 per 100,000 for the first time.”

Jeff Asher / Jeff-alytics, May 2026

📊 Methodology — read this before you compare cities

Every city card compares a city to itself over the same window last year, using its own official source: open-data incident APIs, CompStat/NIBRS reports, MCCA quarterly surveys, or department statements. Crime definitions differ by city (e.g. Chicago counts battery in “violent crime”; NYC tracks 7 major felonies) — so don’t compare absolute counts across cities. Reporting windows differ too: cards are badged LIVE, YTD 2026, Q1 2026, FY 2025, or LIMITED. LIVE cities re-query their city’s public API on every page load with a 7-day reporting-lag buffer; preliminary data can be revised. The Refund Meter is self-reported by visitors and unverified. This is a fan-made awareness project — not affiliated with Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive, and not an official crime statistics service.

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Running a crime tracker means servers, data wrangling, and — thanks to where we parked the ’86 coupe during a “research session” on Ocean Drive — a small stack of citations under the wiper.

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