Attorney General Drew Wrigley Highlights High Violent Crime Rate in 2024 ND Crime Report

2024 North Dakota crime statistics are lower, but not by much

BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — Over the last five years, crimes that include burglary, assaults, fraud, kidnapping, and others have consistently totaled nearly 50,000 offenses throughout the state of North Dakota. Attorney General Drew Wrigley shared that he is concerned that this may be the new normal. “Is this new normal that you hear so much about in the communities?…. The...

Attorney General Drew Wrigley highlights high violent crime rate in 2024 ND crime report

We're now wrapping up 2025, but today, North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley broke down the crime numbers from last year. He says 2024 was one of the most violent years in a decade.

Port: Attorney general's handling of North Dakota's crime report has been transparently self-serving

MINOT — Normally, a crime report that showed significant declines in crime rates would be something our law enforcement community would want to champion as evidence of increased public safety and a job well done. Thus, it probably wouldn't be something they'd want to drop on the last day of the year, right before a major holiday. Yet, that's just what Attorney General Drew Wrigley's office has done. I've been critical of Wrigley and his office f…

Wrigley releases 2024 crime report, a mix of 'encouraging' and 'troubling' new data

BISMARCK — On the eve of the first day of 2026, North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley released his office's final 2024 crime report, which found that the state's violent crime rate decreased 8.6% year-over-year. While the decline was "encouraging," Wrigley said violent crime's longer-term trend, an "inescapable, dramatic escalation" of 30% over the last decade, continues to be "extremely troubling." "What we have now is a plateau at a very …

ND Attorney General releases 2024 crime statistics

The report indicates the number of arrests made in 2024 were the highest amount in five years.