Recently, a change in how the FBI gathers this information meant New York City and Los Angeles police departments could not provide it. Based on new information from a data analysis firm, which seems to have more accurate information, murders in large cities are decreasing. Jeff Asher, a former CIA employee and the head of AH Datalytics, a firm that reports on murders by city, told ABC he expected murders in the United States to fall by 2,000 in 2023. The city with the most murders was Chicago, at 599, down by 13% from 2022. Chicago’s high number of murders is because of homicides in a small part of the city, geographically.