The Brief The chiefs of police in Tampa and St. Petersburg said both cities marked the lowest number of homicides in 2025 in more than 50 years. Both St. Petersburg and Tampa marked the lowest number of homicides in 2025 in more than 50 years. RELATED: Crime rates declining in St. Petersburg: PoliceTampa police are also seeing numbers go in a better direction, too. Those crimes kept St. Petersburg officers busy too, especially with teens. "We switched from UCR, the Uniform Crime Reporting, to NIBRS, which is a new FBI reporting system which all agencies should be reporting that way.