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They told NPR they want to travel and use hotels — for work, to visit family and friends, for fun or when they travel for health care — but they frequently run into problems.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It's anticipation and it's a little bit of dread,\" Don Bergman of Jacksonville, Fla. says of the moment he opens the door of a hotel room. \"You hope for the best, expect the worst and then deal with what you got.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Among the stories NPR heard:\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cul class=\"rte2-style-ul\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-inline-start:48px;\">\u003cli>Wheelchair users described showing up at a hotel to find there's no accessible room available, even when they reserved one online or in a phone call directly to the hotel.\u003c/li>\u003cli>Rooms designated as accessible often had design flaws, such as misplaced toilets and grab bars in bathrooms, or showers with thresholds and doors that block wheelchairs.\u003c/li>\u003cli>Many complained of unsafe beds too high off the floor to reach from their wheelchairs. Some told us of falling when they tried to get in or out of a tall bed. Some broke bones.\u003c/li>\u003cli>Respondents praised hotel staff who go out of their way to help but also expressed frustration when staffers seem to lack training to understand or fix problems with rooms that are inaccessible.\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\u003c/p>\u003cp>NPR found multiple reasons why wheelchair users continue to run into accessibility problems at hotels: the hesitancy of the hotel industry to do more, which can cost money; the often complicated ownership of hotels which creates confusion over who's responsible for making things accessible; a lack of consistent, forceful regulation by government agencies; and the high turnover rate of hotel staff.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Representatives of the hotel industry told NPR they value disabled travelers and reach out to wheelchair users to understand how to serve them better.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"Ultimately, our business, we want to get it right for all travelers,\" says Chirag Shah of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA). \"So hearing those experiences from your listeners is something that we're attentive to.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laws guarantee access, but travelers feel like \"second-class\" citizens\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Americans with Disabilities Act, an anti-discrimination law signed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990, requires hotels to be made accessible to people with disabilities. All hotels, motels and inns that were designed \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ada.gov/5yearadarpt/ii_enforcing_pt3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">after January 26, 1993\u003c/a>, or substantially renovated since, must be \"usable by persons with disabilities.\" The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ada.gov/law-and-regs/design-standards/2010-stds/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Department of Justice issues regulations\u003c/a>, and experts at \u003ca href=\"https://www.access-board.gov/about/\" target=\"_blank\">the U.S. Access Board,\u003c/a> an independent federal agency, \u003ca href=\"https://www.access-board.gov/ada/\" target=\"_blank\">develop design standards\u003c/a> — from the width of a door to how many rooms need to be accessible.\u003c/p>\u003cp>People who responded to the NPR survey say that since passage of the ADA they're able to travel more — and want to use hotels more.. Almost all said they avoid home-sharing sites and alternative lodging–such as Airbnb–that are exempt from most federal accessibility laws.\u003c/p>\u003cp>But people who use wheelchairs noted their frequent frustration when they can't easily use a hotel. One of the most common complaints in the NPR survey was that people reserve an accessible room online, or call the hotel directly, but arrive to find no reservation or the room was given away.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Sometimes, says Phyllis Klugas of Vinton, Va., that's because people who aren't disabled take those accessible rooms.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"Many people ask for accessible rooms that don't need them, because they think the rooms are larger,\" she says.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Others say they get the accessible room but that it has barriers. The NPR survey and follow-up reporting found travelers in wheelchairs are frustrated by many recurring problems — sometimes so much furniture that they can't easily maneuver their wheelchair; a shower they can't get into; hand-held shower heads, shampoos and soaps, now mounted on shower walls, but too high to reach; electrical outlets that people need to power some wheelchairs and scooters also out of reach, along with too-high window shades, thermostats and closet hangers.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"These things are not that hard\" for hotels to get right, says John Wodatch of the National Association of ADA Coordinators. \"It's not expensive,\" he says. It takes a software fix, for example, to get reservations marked in the system, he says, and training of staff to understand how to meet the accessibility needs of disabled guests.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"You're in the business of pleasing your customers. Hotels are good at that,\" notes Wodatch, who led the U.S. Department of Justice office in charge of enforcing the ADA until 2011. \"Just add this.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>ADA regulations require hotels to put descriptions of a room's accessibility features on line but travelers tell NPR that accurate information is elusive.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Cory Lee, who runs a travel website, says there's an easy fix for hotels: Just add photos and videos of accessible rooms on their web site, then wheelchair users can see if a room meets their needs. Lee traveled 150 days in 2025 — from New York City to French Polynesia — and posts pictures and videos of his hotel rooms on his website, Curb Free with Cory Lee.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"The first chain that actually does that and publishes those videos is really going to get all the business from disabled travelers,\" says Lee.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Abigail Fernandes drove with her two young children and a friend from her home in Maine to a wedding in Wisconsin this summer. All five of the hotels she reserved on the trip there and back were inaccessible, says Fernandes, a mental health therapist.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The front desk clerk at the hotel near the wedding ceremony said there was no room available with an accessible bathroom — even though Fernandes had researched the hotel before booking it weeks before. But, the hotel staffer said, Fernandes could use the accessible bathroom in the hotel's lobby.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"And I was like, 'Why am I paying this much money?' … So we canceled it.\" But that meant spending hours searching for a new hotel nearby. As a result, Fernandes, who has multiple sclerosis and wears braces on her legs, arrived 90 minutes late to the wedding reception for her close friend.\u003c/p>\u003cp>These booking problems have persisted despite decades of enforcement by the U.S. Department of Justice. Attorneys there have \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-co/pr/marriott-international-agrees-address-barriers-making-reservations-accessible-rooms#:~:text=The%20rule%20requires%20hotels%20to,choices%20provided%20to%20other%20guests.\" target=\"_blank\">reached settlements after suing individual hotels and chains\u003c/a> and in 2010 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ada.gov/law-and-regs/regulations/title-iii-regulations/\" target=\"_blank\">finalized rules\u003c/a> that require hotels to \u003ca href=\"https://adata.org/factsheet/accessible-lodging#:~:text=Revised%20Standards%20for%20Buildings%20and,different%20requirements%20for%20those%20elements.\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>make their online reservation systems accessible\u003c/u>\u003c/a> to people with disabilities. Also that year, the department signed \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ada.gov/hilton/hilton.htm\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>a consent decree with Hilton\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that became a model for how to make an accessible reservation system and train hotel staff how to use it.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Shah, the executive vice president of the AHLA, says the industry has made a commitment to \"significant training … to ensure that folks understand the needs of the various guests that come into the hotel.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>But it's hard for the trainings to keep up in an industry that faces workforce shortages and high staff turnover. About \u003ca href=\"https://oysterlink.com/spotlight/high-turnover-in-hospitality-2025/\" target=\"_blank\">70 percent of a hotel's staff will leave each year,\u003c/a> according to one industry estimate. A Justice Department spokesperson, Natalie Baldassarre, told NPR: \"The Civil Rights Division's Disability Rights Section routinely meets with outside groups to hear concerns and works to achieve equal opportunity for all people with disabilities in the United States. We also encourage those with input to share their thoughts through the Department's \u003ca href=\"https://www.ada.gov/file-a-complaint/\" target=\"_blank\">official ADA complaint portal\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>But a majority of the Disability Rights Section's lawyers have left, including many long-time attorneys, since the start of the current Trump administration.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Many of the respondents to the NPR survey told us of their own hacks to make hotels work for them, often traveling with extra and bulky gear. Dave Simon of Alexandria, Va., brings a lift device and his own large, foldaway shower chair. The chair he uses can cost $1,500. Others said they buy a cheaper chair — one that can run about $150 — when they get to a hotel and jjust leave it \u003cstrong>at the hotel when they check out.\u003c/strong> Carolyn Lord of Huntsville, Ala. brings an adjustable bed frame for her son and buys a mattress for him that she has delivered to the hotel when he goes to Chicago for surgery.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tall beds, like \"climbing a mountain\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Another complaint that came up over and over in the NPR survey: Tall beds that pose safety risks because they are too high for wheelchair users to easily get in and out of.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Hotels in recent years have added thicker and higher padded mattresses and mattress covers. It's part of a competition among hotels to create a sense of luxuriousness, notes Samantha Evans of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals, who has advised hotel companies on accessibility. But \"it's not so luxurious if you can't get into the bed,\" she says.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Beds that were once 19 to 23 inches high, a manageable height for most people to get in and out from a wheelchair, can now reach 25 to 30 inches high, which many told NPR is too high for them.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"Climbing up into a bed feels luxurious when you're ambulatory,\" says Emily Merkel of Charlottesville, Va., who uses a wheelchair because of an autoimmune illness, but it's \"more like climbing a mountain when you're not.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>It's up to the U.S. Department of Justice to set standards for furniture, but it never has set one for bed heights–even as hotels raised beds higher off the ground and more wheelchair users complained.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In 2017, attorneys at the department, in consultation with the hotel industry, worked on standards but talks stopped during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Some respondents told NPR of falling from tall beds, sometimes being injured. Jack Conway Jr. of Dunmore, Pa., broke his collarbone trying to lift himself out of his wheelchair onto a tall bed. Dana Liesegang of Grand Junction, Colo., has spent nights sleeping in her wheelchair when she couldn't reach the bed. When Caitlin Reilly, of Hingham, Mass., fell, she says the hotel called the fire department to help her up — and paramedics asked for her health insurance information so they could send her a bill.\u003c/p>\u003cp>It's not just tall beds that create problems for wheelchair users. Another trend at hotels is to put beds on solid platforms that go to the floor — too low for some wheelchair users.\u003c/p>\u003cp>People who use a lift device–a mechanical sling–to be hoisted out of a wheelchair need the bed to be open several inches above the floor. The feet of the device need to fit under the bed..\u003c/p>\u003cp>Erick Sandoval brings a large lift when he travels, but now often finds he can't use it as hotels switch to heavy platform beds. Instead, he's forced to rely upon his parents to lift him in and out of his power wheelchair.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It's harder on everyone and it definitely isn't ideal as using the lift — but we don't have another choice,\" says Sandoval, a bookkeeper from Ayr, Neb.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"Right now, it often feels like 'accessible' is just a label, not a guarantee.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There are barriers all over hotels — from the parking lot to the pool.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>It's not just the hotel room that vexes wheelchair users. Respondents mentioned problems throughout hotels — from the moment they arrive.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Some noted problems in parking lots, including too few spaces or spots too narrow for a wheelchair van to put down its ramp.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Carden Wyckoff, a member of Atlanta's City Council, spoke of her frustration when she arrives and finds a tall front desk that she can't reach or see over.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"Just that initial greeting,\" she says, gives her \"that feeling of 'I'm different'. I feel excluded in this experience.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Others mentioned doors too heavy to open, plush carpets that make it hard to propel a wheelchair, breakfast areas too narrow for wheelchairs and unclear evacuation plans for wheelchair users in case of fire or emergency.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Many respondents who travel with an aide, friend or family member they need to assist them complained that they book a room with two beds but often get put into a room with just one.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"I do not enjoy having to sleep in the same bed as my mother,\" wrote Christina Buck of Seaside, Ore., \"because I am disabled and hotels do not have ADA rooms with two beds in them (despite it being federal law that they do).\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Respondents wrote of laws that seem to confuse hotel staff. Karen Lohr of Oakland, Calif. says front desk clerks often charge her a pet fee for her service dog Milo, a yellow Labrador Retriever — \u003ca href=\"https://www.ada.gov/resources/service-animals-faqs/#:~:text=Q12.,animal%20into%20a%20public%20place?\" target=\"_blank\">even though that's not allowed by law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Lohr is familiar with disability law, in part because she works for the University of California, Berkeley to help disabled students get accessible dorm rooms.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Lohr, who likes to swim, books hotels with pools. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ada.gov/resources/accessible-pools-requirements/#:~:text=Large%20pools%20must%20have%20two,of%20exceptions%20to%20the%20requirements.\" target=\"_blank\">By law, those are required to have a lift\u003c/a> she can use to get into the pool. \"But 90 percent of the time, it's broken,\" she says.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Federal law requires \u003ca href=\"https://wheelchairtravel.org/ada-rules-wheelchair-accessible-hotel-shuttles/#:~:text=Companies%20that%20provide%20transportation%20services,The%20ADA%20requires%20%E2%80%9Cequivalent%20service%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\">hotels that provide courtesy shuttles\u003c/a> to and from airports to include shuttles with wheelchair lifts or provide alternative ways of transportation for wheelchair users. But no one in our survey said they count on these shuttles.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Kelly Mack and her husband, of Washington, D.C., planned ahead for their early-morning flight and booked a hotel close to the airport. A reservations clerk had assured her that the free shuttle to the airport had a lift for her wheelchair. That turned out to be incorrect information. She and her husband were left to hurriedly get to the airport on their own, she in her motorized wheelchair, across narrow sidewalks and a freeway overpass in the pre-dawn dark, a mile to the airport pulling their luggage.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It was quite frightening\" over \"some perilous crossings,\" Mack says, but it was \"the only way we could get to the airport.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Consultants who advise hotels on how to become compliant with federal accessibility requirements\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>told NPR that their clients see the business opportunity of appealing to disabled travelers and want to do accessibility right.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"The majority of our clients are taking the right steps to improve their facilities and provide an excellent experience for the disabled,\" says Tima Bell, principal of a California architectural firm that advises hotel companies nationwide.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Bell notes another complication for hotels and the agencies that regulate them: The mixed ownership of many hotels. That building with the bright Marriott, Hyatt or Wyndham sign out front likely isn't owned by that hotel chain. Often, the owner is a separate company that hires the name-brand chain for its reservations system and to operate the hotel. Sometimes, the hotel parking structure is owned by a third company.\u003c/p>\u003cp>That makes it hard to get consistency from hotel to hotel, even within a brand, making solutions \"fairly complex\", says James Bostrom, who helped direct the U.S. Department of Justice division in charge of regulating hotel accessibility. The hotel chain may want to make changes — like lowering beds — but the corporation that owns the building doesn't want to pay for it. Or changes need to be spelled out in a contract which may not be up for renewal for years.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Shah, the hotel industry executive, says some hotels fear being targeted in what get called \"drive-by lawsuits.\" In 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/10/civil-rights-tester-case-heads-to-high-court/#:~:text=Deborah%20Laufer%20is%20a%20self,accessibility%20of%20the%20hotel's%20facilities.\" target=\"_blank\">the Supreme Court heard oral arguments\u003c/a> in a lawsuit by a hotel in Maine against a Florida woman who sued over 600 hotels.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Deborah Laufer, who has multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair, tested hotel websites and filed suits against hotels she said didn't give travelers adequate information, as required by law, to know if the hotel was accessible. The hotel questioned her standing to sue since she was simply testing the website and had no intention to book a room.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Supreme Court then \u003ca href=\"https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/12/314662/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>dismissed the case\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, avoiding a ruling that some disability advocates feared could have weakened the ability of people to sue under civil rights laws such as the ADA.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Supporters of \"testers\" noted that \u003ca href=\"https://cepr.net/publications/disability-justice-and-civil-rights-the-fight-isnt-over-after-acheson-v-laufer/\" target=\"_blank\">hotels have had years to get accessibility right\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://hrlr.law.columbia.edu/hrlr-online/disabling-travel-quantifying-the-harm-of-inaccessible-hotels-to-disabled-people/\" target=\"_blank\">yet problems remain common.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"You can't choose which civil rights we're going to enforce and which ones we're not,\" says Kathryn Sorensen, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who uses a wheelchair and writes about accessible design on her blog, The ADA Nerd. \"There would be a major uproar about it for any other minority group.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Under the ADA, plaintiffs can get attorneys fees, but not damages when they sue private businesses. Shah said \u003ca href=\"https://instituteforlegalreform.com/blog/small-businesses-targeted-with-ada-lawsuits/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>hotels are unfairly burdened \u003c/u>\u003c/a>by a \"cottage industry\" of \"those attorneys looking to make a quick buck\" by seeking quick cash settlements.\u003c/p>\u003cp>People who run into inaccessible hotels have few options to seek redress. Some in the NPR survey said they complained and got a refund–often just a partial one. Mostly, they report they were offered hotel rewards points.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Justice Department can take an individual's complaint and sue a hotel. Only one of the 200 people who responded to the NPR survey said they took a complaint to the Justice Department. In that case Lohr, the Oakland woman who challenges pet fees for her service dog, complained that a large hotel, where she stayed when she was getting medical treatment, had just one accessible room. The case went to mediation and the hotel eventually refunded Lohr her money.\u003c/p>\u003cp>She says she has \"no idea\" if the hotel fixed the problem.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Many of the respondents praised individual hotel staff who worked to help them: The front-desk clerk who takes a tape measure to check the height of a bed in advance, the crews that take mattresses off of beds that are too high or fix a broken shower bench or handheld showerhead.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Most people have found chains or specific hotels they praise and seek out–but there was no consensus on the best chain. A chain that was praised by some was a subject of complaints by others.\u003c/p>\u003cp>One thing the respondents do agree on: They don't trust alternatives to hotels like home-sharing. When places belong to individual owners, they are unregulated by the ADA.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Of those in the survey who say they've tried to book a place on Airbnb or VRBO, there were many complaints. David Mengyan of Clarkston, Mich., a frequent traveler, booked a house in the Florida Keys because it was advertised as having an elevator. When he arrived, the elevator didn't work. Justina Thompson of Flemingsburg, Ky. rented a Tennessee cabin listed as wheelchair accessible. When she got there, the entrance indeed was wide enough to fit her wheelchair, but the bedroom and bathroom doors weren't.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Her children, then 15, 13, and 11-years old, carried her to the bathroom and to bed.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It was a terrible vacation for me and my kids,\" Thompson says.\u003c/p>\u003cp>After years of struggling to find accessible hotels and rentals, Lorraine Woodward and her husband, of Raleigh, N.C., built their own accessible beach house. She has muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair. Her two sons have muscular dystrophy, too.\u003c/p>\u003cp>But it wasn't until the family started renting out their accessible house that they discovered how many other people wanted something similar.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Woodward saw that \"their stories are all the same: How hard it is to find an accessible place to stay and how few short-term rentals there are.\" She then started her own company, Becoming rentABLE, to verify accessible short-term rentals across the country..\u003c/p>\u003cp>While most of the people who responded to the NPR survey said they want to travel more, some said the problems with hotels make them want to travel less.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It's really in some ways ruined my retirement years,\" says Julie Withers of Milwaukee, who uses a manual wheelchair because of a spinal cord injury.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The retired medical transcriptionist wanted to travel — to visit friends and family in Arizona and Florida, to see the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lpm.org/news/2025-06-20/a-rare-appalachian-firefly-flickers-in-the-forests-outside-louisville\" target=\"_blank\">rare blue-ghost fireflies in Kentucky.\u003c/a> But she's had too many bad experiences at hotels. She couldn't find an accessible hotel at her daughter's wedding on an island in Georgia and needed to ask her ex-husband \"to pick me up and put me on the bed.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"The world is moving on little by little,\" Withers says of new laws and opportunities for people with disabilities. \"Why do we have to keep fighting hotels?\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR Correspondent Chris Arnold contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em> \u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2025 NPR\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Eileen Schoch traveled to her mother's funeral in Asheville, N.C. and found the hotel room — the one she'd called about in advance — wasn't accessible as promised.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Schoch, who uses a wheelchair after two strokes, couldn't use the room's toilet without assistance from her husband or daughter. The grab bars were in the wrong place. She couldn't get into the shower because it had a door too narrow for her wheelchair. She got sponge baths for three days.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Nor could she reach the tall bed from her wheelchair. The hotel gave her an uncomfortable cot, instead.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"You feel that you're treated as a second-class citizen. And you don't count,\" says Schoch, a retired educator from Schenectady, N.Y.. \"And it's not a nice feeling.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Schoch said she considered switching hotels, but she wanted to be close to other family members. After all, they'd picked that hotel because she'd chosen it first. The family brought business to the hotel, booking four rooms for three days.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Schoch asks: \"After that experience, who would want to travel?\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Despite 35 years of federal law requiring hotels to be made accessible for guests who use wheelchairs, those travelers tell NPR that hotels still fail to fully comply with basic and often easily achieved requirements for accessibility.\u003c/p>\u003cp>NPR interviewed 50 wheelchair users. And more than 200 people who use wheelchairs, scooters and other mobility devices, or their family members and caregivers, responded to an NPR survey. They told NPR they want to travel and use hotels — for work, to visit family and friends, for fun or when they travel for health care — but they frequently run into problems.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It's anticipation and it's a little bit of dread,\" Don Bergman of Jacksonville, Fla. says of the moment he opens the door of a hotel room. \"You hope for the best, expect the worst and then deal with what you got.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Among the stories NPR heard:\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cul class=\"rte2-style-ul\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-inline-start:48px;\">\u003cli>Wheelchair users described showing up at a hotel to find there's no accessible room available, even when they reserved one online or in a phone call directly to the hotel.\u003c/li>\u003cli>Rooms designated as accessible often had design flaws, such as misplaced toilets and grab bars in bathrooms, or showers with thresholds and doors that block wheelchairs.\u003c/li>\u003cli>Many complained of unsafe beds too high off the floor to reach from their wheelchairs. Some told us of falling when they tried to get in or out of a tall bed. Some broke bones.\u003c/li>\u003cli>Respondents praised hotel staff who go out of their way to help but also expressed frustration when staffers seem to lack training to understand or fix problems with rooms that are inaccessible.\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\u003c/p>\u003cp>NPR found multiple reasons why wheelchair users continue to run into accessibility problems at hotels: the hesitancy of the hotel industry to do more, which can cost money; the often complicated ownership of hotels which creates confusion over who's responsible for making things accessible; a lack of consistent, forceful regulation by government agencies; and the high turnover rate of hotel staff.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Representatives of the hotel industry told NPR they value disabled travelers and reach out to wheelchair users to understand how to serve them better.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"Ultimately, our business, we want to get it right for all travelers,\" says Chirag Shah of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA). \"So hearing those experiences from your listeners is something that we're attentive to.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laws guarantee access, but travelers feel like \"second-class\" citizens\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Americans with Disabilities Act, an anti-discrimination law signed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990, requires hotels to be made accessible to people with disabilities. All hotels, motels and inns that were designed \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ada.gov/5yearadarpt/ii_enforcing_pt3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">after January 26, 1993\u003c/a>, or substantially renovated since, must be \"usable by persons with disabilities.\" The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ada.gov/law-and-regs/design-standards/2010-stds/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Department of Justice issues regulations\u003c/a>, and experts at \u003ca href=\"https://www.access-board.gov/about/\" target=\"_blank\">the U.S. Access Board,\u003c/a> an independent federal agency, \u003ca href=\"https://www.access-board.gov/ada/\" target=\"_blank\">develop design standards\u003c/a> — from the width of a door to how many rooms need to be accessible.\u003c/p>\u003cp>People who responded to the NPR survey say that since passage of the ADA they're able to travel more — and want to use hotels more.. Almost all said they avoid home-sharing sites and alternative lodging–such as Airbnb–that are exempt from most federal accessibility laws.\u003c/p>\u003cp>But people who use wheelchairs noted their frequent frustration when they can't easily use a hotel. One of the most common complaints in the NPR survey was that people reserve an accessible room online, or call the hotel directly, but arrive to find no reservation or the room was given away.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Sometimes, says Phyllis Klugas of Vinton, Va., that's because people who aren't disabled take those accessible rooms.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"Many people ask for accessible rooms that don't need them, because they think the rooms are larger,\" she says.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Others say they get the accessible room but that it has barriers. The NPR survey and follow-up reporting found travelers in wheelchairs are frustrated by many recurring problems — sometimes so much furniture that they can't easily maneuver their wheelchair; a shower they can't get into; hand-held shower heads, shampoos and soaps, now mounted on shower walls, but too high to reach; electrical outlets that people need to power some wheelchairs and scooters also out of reach, along with too-high window shades, thermostats and closet hangers.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"These things are not that hard\" for hotels to get right, says John Wodatch of the National Association of ADA Coordinators. \"It's not expensive,\" he says. It takes a software fix, for example, to get reservations marked in the system, he says, and training of staff to understand how to meet the accessibility needs of disabled guests.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"You're in the business of pleasing your customers. Hotels are good at that,\" notes Wodatch, who led the U.S. Department of Justice office in charge of enforcing the ADA until 2011. \"Just add this.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>ADA regulations require hotels to put descriptions of a room's accessibility features on line but travelers tell NPR that accurate information is elusive.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Cory Lee, who runs a travel website, says there's an easy fix for hotels: Just add photos and videos of accessible rooms on their web site, then wheelchair users can see if a room meets their needs. Lee traveled 150 days in 2025 — from New York City to French Polynesia — and posts pictures and videos of his hotel rooms on his website, Curb Free with Cory Lee.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"The first chain that actually does that and publishes those videos is really going to get all the business from disabled travelers,\" says Lee.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Abigail Fernandes drove with her two young children and a friend from her home in Maine to a wedding in Wisconsin this summer. All five of the hotels she reserved on the trip there and back were inaccessible, says Fernandes, a mental health therapist.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The front desk clerk at the hotel near the wedding ceremony said there was no room available with an accessible bathroom — even though Fernandes had researched the hotel before booking it weeks before. But, the hotel staffer said, Fernandes could use the accessible bathroom in the hotel's lobby.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"And I was like, 'Why am I paying this much money?' … So we canceled it.\" But that meant spending hours searching for a new hotel nearby. As a result, Fernandes, who has multiple sclerosis and wears braces on her legs, arrived 90 minutes late to the wedding reception for her close friend.\u003c/p>\u003cp>These booking problems have persisted despite decades of enforcement by the U.S. Department of Justice. Attorneys there have \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-co/pr/marriott-international-agrees-address-barriers-making-reservations-accessible-rooms#:~:text=The%20rule%20requires%20hotels%20to,choices%20provided%20to%20other%20guests.\" target=\"_blank\">reached settlements after suing individual hotels and chains\u003c/a> and in 2010 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ada.gov/law-and-regs/regulations/title-iii-regulations/\" target=\"_blank\">finalized rules\u003c/a> that require hotels to \u003ca href=\"https://adata.org/factsheet/accessible-lodging#:~:text=Revised%20Standards%20for%20Buildings%20and,different%20requirements%20for%20those%20elements.\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>make their online reservation systems accessible\u003c/u>\u003c/a> to people with disabilities. Also that year, the department signed \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ada.gov/hilton/hilton.htm\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>a consent decree with Hilton\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that became a model for how to make an accessible reservation system and train hotel staff how to use it.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Shah, the executive vice president of the AHLA, says the industry has made a commitment to \"significant training … to ensure that folks understand the needs of the various guests that come into the hotel.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>But it's hard for the trainings to keep up in an industry that faces workforce shortages and high staff turnover. About \u003ca href=\"https://oysterlink.com/spotlight/high-turnover-in-hospitality-2025/\" target=\"_blank\">70 percent of a hotel's staff will leave each year,\u003c/a> according to one industry estimate. A Justice Department spokesperson, Natalie Baldassarre, told NPR: \"The Civil Rights Division's Disability Rights Section routinely meets with outside groups to hear concerns and works to achieve equal opportunity for all people with disabilities in the United States. We also encourage those with input to share their thoughts through the Department's \u003ca href=\"https://www.ada.gov/file-a-complaint/\" target=\"_blank\">official ADA complaint portal\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>But a majority of the Disability Rights Section's lawyers have left, including many long-time attorneys, since the start of the current Trump administration.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Many of the respondents to the NPR survey told us of their own hacks to make hotels work for them, often traveling with extra and bulky gear. Dave Simon of Alexandria, Va., brings a lift device and his own large, foldaway shower chair. The chair he uses can cost $1,500. Others said they buy a cheaper chair — one that can run about $150 — when they get to a hotel and jjust leave it \u003cstrong>at the hotel when they check out.\u003c/strong> Carolyn Lord of Huntsville, Ala. brings an adjustable bed frame for her son and buys a mattress for him that she has delivered to the hotel when he goes to Chicago for surgery.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tall beds, like \"climbing a mountain\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Another complaint that came up over and over in the NPR survey: Tall beds that pose safety risks because they are too high for wheelchair users to easily get in and out of.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Hotels in recent years have added thicker and higher padded mattresses and mattress covers. It's part of a competition among hotels to create a sense of luxuriousness, notes Samantha Evans of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals, who has advised hotel companies on accessibility. But \"it's not so luxurious if you can't get into the bed,\" she says.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Beds that were once 19 to 23 inches high, a manageable height for most people to get in and out from a wheelchair, can now reach 25 to 30 inches high, which many told NPR is too high for them.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"Climbing up into a bed feels luxurious when you're ambulatory,\" says Emily Merkel of Charlottesville, Va., who uses a wheelchair because of an autoimmune illness, but it's \"more like climbing a mountain when you're not.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>It's up to the U.S. Department of Justice to set standards for furniture, but it never has set one for bed heights–even as hotels raised beds higher off the ground and more wheelchair users complained.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In 2017, attorneys at the department, in consultation with the hotel industry, worked on standards but talks stopped during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Some respondents told NPR of falling from tall beds, sometimes being injured. Jack Conway Jr. of Dunmore, Pa., broke his collarbone trying to lift himself out of his wheelchair onto a tall bed. Dana Liesegang of Grand Junction, Colo., has spent nights sleeping in her wheelchair when she couldn't reach the bed. When Caitlin Reilly, of Hingham, Mass., fell, she says the hotel called the fire department to help her up — and paramedics asked for her health insurance information so they could send her a bill.\u003c/p>\u003cp>It's not just tall beds that create problems for wheelchair users. Another trend at hotels is to put beds on solid platforms that go to the floor — too low for some wheelchair users.\u003c/p>\u003cp>People who use a lift device–a mechanical sling–to be hoisted out of a wheelchair need the bed to be open several inches above the floor. The feet of the device need to fit under the bed..\u003c/p>\u003cp>Erick Sandoval brings a large lift when he travels, but now often finds he can't use it as hotels switch to heavy platform beds. Instead, he's forced to rely upon his parents to lift him in and out of his power wheelchair.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It's harder on everyone and it definitely isn't ideal as using the lift — but we don't have another choice,\" says Sandoval, a bookkeeper from Ayr, Neb.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"Right now, it often feels like 'accessible' is just a label, not a guarantee.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There are barriers all over hotels — from the parking lot to the pool.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>It's not just the hotel room that vexes wheelchair users. Respondents mentioned problems throughout hotels — from the moment they arrive.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Some noted problems in parking lots, including too few spaces or spots too narrow for a wheelchair van to put down its ramp.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Carden Wyckoff, a member of Atlanta's City Council, spoke of her frustration when she arrives and finds a tall front desk that she can't reach or see over.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"Just that initial greeting,\" she says, gives her \"that feeling of 'I'm different'. I feel excluded in this experience.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Others mentioned doors too heavy to open, plush carpets that make it hard to propel a wheelchair, breakfast areas too narrow for wheelchairs and unclear evacuation plans for wheelchair users in case of fire or emergency.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Many respondents who travel with an aide, friend or family member they need to assist them complained that they book a room with two beds but often get put into a room with just one.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"I do not enjoy having to sleep in the same bed as my mother,\" wrote Christina Buck of Seaside, Ore., \"because I am disabled and hotels do not have ADA rooms with two beds in them (despite it being federal law that they do).\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Respondents wrote of laws that seem to confuse hotel staff. Karen Lohr of Oakland, Calif. says front desk clerks often charge her a pet fee for her service dog Milo, a yellow Labrador Retriever — \u003ca href=\"https://www.ada.gov/resources/service-animals-faqs/#:~:text=Q12.,animal%20into%20a%20public%20place?\" target=\"_blank\">even though that's not allowed by law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Lohr is familiar with disability law, in part because she works for the University of California, Berkeley to help disabled students get accessible dorm rooms.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Lohr, who likes to swim, books hotels with pools. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ada.gov/resources/accessible-pools-requirements/#:~:text=Large%20pools%20must%20have%20two,of%20exceptions%20to%20the%20requirements.\" target=\"_blank\">By law, those are required to have a lift\u003c/a> she can use to get into the pool. \"But 90 percent of the time, it's broken,\" she says.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Federal law requires \u003ca href=\"https://wheelchairtravel.org/ada-rules-wheelchair-accessible-hotel-shuttles/#:~:text=Companies%20that%20provide%20transportation%20services,The%20ADA%20requires%20%E2%80%9Cequivalent%20service%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\">hotels that provide courtesy shuttles\u003c/a> to and from airports to include shuttles with wheelchair lifts or provide alternative ways of transportation for wheelchair users. But no one in our survey said they count on these shuttles.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Kelly Mack and her husband, of Washington, D.C., planned ahead for their early-morning flight and booked a hotel close to the airport. A reservations clerk had assured her that the free shuttle to the airport had a lift for her wheelchair. That turned out to be incorrect information. She and her husband were left to hurriedly get to the airport on their own, she in her motorized wheelchair, across narrow sidewalks and a freeway overpass in the pre-dawn dark, a mile to the airport pulling their luggage.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It was quite frightening\" over \"some perilous crossings,\" Mack says, but it was \"the only way we could get to the airport.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Consultants who advise hotels on how to become compliant with federal accessibility requirements\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>told NPR that their clients see the business opportunity of appealing to disabled travelers and want to do accessibility right.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"The majority of our clients are taking the right steps to improve their facilities and provide an excellent experience for the disabled,\" says Tima Bell, principal of a California architectural firm that advises hotel companies nationwide.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Bell notes another complication for hotels and the agencies that regulate them: The mixed ownership of many hotels. That building with the bright Marriott, Hyatt or Wyndham sign out front likely isn't owned by that hotel chain. Often, the owner is a separate company that hires the name-brand chain for its reservations system and to operate the hotel. Sometimes, the hotel parking structure is owned by a third company.\u003c/p>\u003cp>That makes it hard to get consistency from hotel to hotel, even within a brand, making solutions \"fairly complex\", says James Bostrom, who helped direct the U.S. Department of Justice division in charge of regulating hotel accessibility. The hotel chain may want to make changes — like lowering beds — but the corporation that owns the building doesn't want to pay for it. Or changes need to be spelled out in a contract which may not be up for renewal for years.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Shah, the hotel industry executive, says some hotels fear being targeted in what get called \"drive-by lawsuits.\" In 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/10/civil-rights-tester-case-heads-to-high-court/#:~:text=Deborah%20Laufer%20is%20a%20self,accessibility%20of%20the%20hotel's%20facilities.\" target=\"_blank\">the Supreme Court heard oral arguments\u003c/a> in a lawsuit by a hotel in Maine against a Florida woman who sued over 600 hotels.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Deborah Laufer, who has multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair, tested hotel websites and filed suits against hotels she said didn't give travelers adequate information, as required by law, to know if the hotel was accessible. The hotel questioned her standing to sue since she was simply testing the website and had no intention to book a room.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Supreme Court then \u003ca href=\"https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/12/314662/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>dismissed the case\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, avoiding a ruling that some disability advocates feared could have weakened the ability of people to sue under civil rights laws such as the ADA.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Supporters of \"testers\" noted that \u003ca href=\"https://cepr.net/publications/disability-justice-and-civil-rights-the-fight-isnt-over-after-acheson-v-laufer/\" target=\"_blank\">hotels have had years to get accessibility right\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://hrlr.law.columbia.edu/hrlr-online/disabling-travel-quantifying-the-harm-of-inaccessible-hotels-to-disabled-people/\" target=\"_blank\">yet problems remain common.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"You can't choose which civil rights we're going to enforce and which ones we're not,\" says Kathryn Sorensen, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who uses a wheelchair and writes about accessible design on her blog, The ADA Nerd. \"There would be a major uproar about it for any other minority group.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Under the ADA, plaintiffs can get attorneys fees, but not damages when they sue private businesses. Shah said \u003ca href=\"https://instituteforlegalreform.com/blog/small-businesses-targeted-with-ada-lawsuits/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>hotels are unfairly burdened \u003c/u>\u003c/a>by a \"cottage industry\" of \"those attorneys looking to make a quick buck\" by seeking quick cash settlements.\u003c/p>\u003cp>People who run into inaccessible hotels have few options to seek redress. Some in the NPR survey said they complained and got a refund–often just a partial one. Mostly, they report they were offered hotel rewards points.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Justice Department can take an individual's complaint and sue a hotel. Only one of the 200 people who responded to the NPR survey said they took a complaint to the Justice Department. In that case Lohr, the Oakland woman who challenges pet fees for her service dog, complained that a large hotel, where she stayed when she was getting medical treatment, had just one accessible room. The case went to mediation and the hotel eventually refunded Lohr her money.\u003c/p>\u003cp>She says she has \"no idea\" if the hotel fixed the problem.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Many of the respondents praised individual hotel staff who worked to help them: The front-desk clerk who takes a tape measure to check the height of a bed in advance, the crews that take mattresses off of beds that are too high or fix a broken shower bench or handheld showerhead.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Most people have found chains or specific hotels they praise and seek out–but there was no consensus on the best chain. A chain that was praised by some was a subject of complaints by others.\u003c/p>\u003cp>One thing the respondents do agree on: They don't trust alternatives to hotels like home-sharing. When places belong to individual owners, they are unregulated by the ADA.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Of those in the survey who say they've tried to book a place on Airbnb or VRBO, there were many complaints. David Mengyan of Clarkston, Mich., a frequent traveler, booked a house in the Florida Keys because it was advertised as having an elevator. When he arrived, the elevator didn't work. Justina Thompson of Flemingsburg, Ky. rented a Tennessee cabin listed as wheelchair accessible. When she got there, the entrance indeed was wide enough to fit her wheelchair, but the bedroom and bathroom doors weren't.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Her children, then 15, 13, and 11-years old, carried her to the bathroom and to bed.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It was a terrible vacation for me and my kids,\" Thompson says.\u003c/p>\u003cp>After years of struggling to find accessible hotels and rentals, Lorraine Woodward and her husband, of Raleigh, N.C., built their own accessible beach house. She has muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair. Her two sons have muscular dystrophy, too.\u003c/p>\u003cp>But it wasn't until the family started renting out their accessible house that they discovered how many other people wanted something similar.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Woodward saw that \"their stories are all the same: How hard it is to find an accessible place to stay and how few short-term rentals there are.\" She then started her own company, Becoming rentABLE, to verify accessible short-term rentals across the country..\u003c/p>\u003cp>While most of the people who responded to the NPR survey said they want to travel more, some said the problems with hotels make them want to travel less.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It's really in some ways ruined my retirement years,\" says Julie Withers of Milwaukee, who uses a manual wheelchair because of a spinal cord injury.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The retired medical transcriptionist wanted to travel — to visit friends and family in Arizona and Florida, to see the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lpm.org/news/2025-06-20/a-rare-appalachian-firefly-flickers-in-the-forests-outside-louisville\" target=\"_blank\">rare blue-ghost fireflies in Kentucky.\u003c/a> But she's had too many bad experiences at hotels. She couldn't find an accessible hotel at her daughter's wedding on an island in Georgia and needed to ask her ex-husband \"to pick me up and put me on the bed.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"The world is moving on little by little,\" Withers says of new laws and opportunities for people with disabilities. \"Why do we have to keep fighting hotels?\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR Correspondent Chris Arnold contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em> \u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2025 NPR\u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Crime fell across much of the U.S. in 2025 — in the Midwest, the South, the Northeast and the West, in big cities and small towns, and in red and blue states.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The number of murders saw a huge drop — about 20% fewer\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>than in 2024, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://realtimecrimeindex.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Real Time Crime Index\u003c/a>, which uses local crime data from nearly 600 jurisdictions around the country. Other violent crimes, including rape, robbery and aggravated assault, also declined, as did property crimes like motor vehicle theft and burglaries.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It's the best year in crime I've seen in 27 years in this business,\" says John Roman, who directs the Center on Public Safety & Justice at NORC, a research group at the University of Chicago.\u003c/p>\u003cp>NPR spoke to researchers who study trends in crime, policing and criminal justice about the numbers. Here are some of their main takeaways this year — and what they expect in 2026.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What caused the drop in murders?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Part of the reason, researchers say, is that the nation is over the hump of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\u003cp>During 2020 and 2021, homicide rates surged across the U.S. Now the nation is simply on the other side of that surge.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"There was a wide array of stresses — economic, financial, psychological — that the pandemic produced,\" said Adam Gelb, president of the Council on Criminal Justice, which researches criminal justice policies. \"And\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>there were greater opportunities to settle beefs with rivals, precisely because there were fewer people on the streets and fewer cops on the streets.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Many people \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2021/article/covid-19-ends-longest-employment-expansion-in-ces-history.htm?utm_campaign=50-money-rules-up-for-re-evaluation&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=moneyasif.com\" target=\"_blank\">lost their jobs\u003c/a>, and an array of government services — things like mental health care and community centers — were disrupted. Between March and May 2020, the local government workforce in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/state-and-local-government-jobs-still-havent-recovered-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\">shrank by around 10%\u003c/a>. Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5448852/murders-down-nationwide-covid\" target=\"_blank\">local government jobs\u003c/a> have rebounded.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Roman, of NORC, says it's helpful to think of violence as an epidemic. More crime leads to more crime, and less leads to less, just like more instances of a virus can lead to more people becoming infected.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"If epidemics cause things to spiral up, they should create virtuous cycles on the way down,\" he said. \"The fewer serious crimes there are, the more resources law enforcement has to investigate each crime.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Rhetoric vs. reality\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Some researchers pointed to a disconnect between the widespread decrease in crime, and President Trump's depictions of crime this year, particularly in Democrat-led cities.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/trump-chicago-crime-red-states-violent\" target=\"_blank\">called Chicago\u003c/a> the \"most dangerous city in the world\" and said \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/11/nx-s1-5498755/president-trump-deploys-national-guard-to-d-c-takes-control-of-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">Washington, D.C.\u003c/a>, had been \"overtaken by violent gangs.\" The two cities, and others, eventually \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/17/nx-s1-5611168/doj-records-show-hundreds-of-immigrants-arrested-in-chicago-had-no-criminal-histories\" target=\"_blank\">became the focus\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/03/nx-s1-5526908/trump-says-d-c-is-now-crime-free-whats-the-reality\" target=\"_blank\">federal law enforcement surges\u003c/a> aimed at cracking down on crime and immigration.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Chicago and D.C. have historically had \u003ca href=\"https://counciloncj.org/crime-trends-in-u-s-cities-mid-year-2025-update/\" target=\"_blank\">higher crime rates\u003c/a> compared to many U.S. cities, but they have also both seen crime falling in recent years, like much of the rest of the country.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Using the threat of crime to justify crackdowns should make Americans wary, said Tahir Duckett, who directs the Center for Innovations in Community Safety at Georgetown Law.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"That's a dark story that we have heard told in history,\" he said, \"justifications for repression of civil rights, justifications for seizing additional authority.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Other researchers told NPR the federal intervention in U.S. cities — particularly the administration's clampdown on immigration — is harming trust, which can already be tenuous, between \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/30/nx-s1-5304236/police-say-ice-tactics-are-eroding-public-trust-in-local-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\">local police leaders\u003c/a> and communities.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"For many folks in the public, they don't distinguish between types of law enforcement agents,\" said Tanya Meisenholder, director of police research at New York University School of Law's Policing Project.\u003c/p>\u003cp>She said that mistrust can make people less likely to call 911 when they need help and less likely to help police and prosecutors as witnesses.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Looking to 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Researchers weren't optimistic the decline in crime would continue into the new year. Some said with rates falling so much in 2025, they wouldn't be surprised to see them rise in 2026.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Government funding cuts worry experts like Ames Grawert, senior counsel in the justice program at the Brennan Center for Justice.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In April, the \u003ca href=\"https://counciloncj.org/doj-funding-cuts-more-than-550-organizations-impacted-new-analysis-finds/#:~:text=Nonprofits%20took%20the%20largest%20share%20of%20overall,of%20all%20terminated%20OJP%20dollars.%20Table%201\" target=\"_blank\">Justice Department cut grants\u003c/a> to hundreds of organizations focused on community safety, including school violence prevention programs, community violence intervention and training for rural police officers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/10/nx-s1-5552704/doj-crime-prevention-public-safety-grant-cuts\" target=\"_blank\">Many of the affected organizations\u003c/a> have already had to shrink their services or lay off employees.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"These are programs that people of both parties should agree are an important way to reduce gun violence, an important way to support communities and reduce crime,\" Grawert said. \"We were just starting to understand how these programs work, how to improve them.\"\u003cbr> \u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2025 NPR\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Crime fell across much of the U.S. in 2025 — in the Midwest, the South, the Northeast and the West, in big cities and small towns, and in red and blue states.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The number of murders saw a huge drop — about 20% fewer\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>than in 2024, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://realtimecrimeindex.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Real Time Crime Index\u003c/a>, which uses local crime data from nearly 600 jurisdictions around the country. Other violent crimes, including rape, robbery and aggravated assault, also declined, as did property crimes like motor vehicle theft and burglaries.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It's the best year in crime I've seen in 27 years in this business,\" says John Roman, who directs the Center on Public Safety & Justice at NORC, a research group at the University of Chicago.\u003c/p>\u003cp>NPR spoke to researchers who study trends in crime, policing and criminal justice about the numbers. Here are some of their main takeaways this year — and what they expect in 2026.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What caused the drop in murders?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Part of the reason, researchers say, is that the nation is over the hump of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\u003cp>During 2020 and 2021, homicide rates surged across the U.S. Now the nation is simply on the other side of that surge.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"There was a wide array of stresses — economic, financial, psychological — that the pandemic produced,\" said Adam Gelb, president of the Council on Criminal Justice, which researches criminal justice policies. \"And\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>there were greater opportunities to settle beefs with rivals, precisely because there were fewer people on the streets and fewer cops on the streets.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Many people \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2021/article/covid-19-ends-longest-employment-expansion-in-ces-history.htm?utm_campaign=50-money-rules-up-for-re-evaluation&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=moneyasif.com\" target=\"_blank\">lost their jobs\u003c/a>, and an array of government services — things like mental health care and community centers — were disrupted. Between March and May 2020, the local government workforce in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/state-and-local-government-jobs-still-havent-recovered-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\">shrank by around 10%\u003c/a>. Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5448852/murders-down-nationwide-covid\" target=\"_blank\">local government jobs\u003c/a> have rebounded.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Roman, of NORC, says it's helpful to think of violence as an epidemic. More crime leads to more crime, and less leads to less, just like more instances of a virus can lead to more people becoming infected.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"If epidemics cause things to spiral up, they should create virtuous cycles on the way down,\" he said. \"The fewer serious crimes there are, the more resources law enforcement has to investigate each crime.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Rhetoric vs. reality\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Some researchers pointed to a disconnect between the widespread decrease in crime, and President Trump's depictions of crime this year, particularly in Democrat-led cities.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/trump-chicago-crime-red-states-violent\" target=\"_blank\">called Chicago\u003c/a> the \"most dangerous city in the world\" and said \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/11/nx-s1-5498755/president-trump-deploys-national-guard-to-d-c-takes-control-of-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">Washington, D.C.\u003c/a>, had been \"overtaken by violent gangs.\" The two cities, and others, eventually \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/17/nx-s1-5611168/doj-records-show-hundreds-of-immigrants-arrested-in-chicago-had-no-criminal-histories\" target=\"_blank\">became the focus\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/03/nx-s1-5526908/trump-says-d-c-is-now-crime-free-whats-the-reality\" target=\"_blank\">federal law enforcement surges\u003c/a> aimed at cracking down on crime and immigration.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Chicago and D.C. have historically had \u003ca href=\"https://counciloncj.org/crime-trends-in-u-s-cities-mid-year-2025-update/\" target=\"_blank\">higher crime rates\u003c/a> compared to many U.S. cities, but they have also both seen crime falling in recent years, like much of the rest of the country.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Using the threat of crime to justify crackdowns should make Americans wary, said Tahir Duckett, who directs the Center for Innovations in Community Safety at Georgetown Law.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"That's a dark story that we have heard told in history,\" he said, \"justifications for repression of civil rights, justifications for seizing additional authority.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Other researchers told NPR the federal intervention in U.S. cities — particularly the administration's clampdown on immigration — is harming trust, which can already be tenuous, between \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/30/nx-s1-5304236/police-say-ice-tactics-are-eroding-public-trust-in-local-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\">local police leaders\u003c/a> and communities.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"For many folks in the public, they don't distinguish between types of law enforcement agents,\" said Tanya Meisenholder, director of police research at New York University School of Law's Policing Project.\u003c/p>\u003cp>She said that mistrust can make people less likely to call 911 when they need help and less likely to help police and prosecutors as witnesses.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Looking to 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Researchers weren't optimistic the decline in crime would continue into the new year. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cdiv class=\"storyMajorUpdateDate\"> \u003cstrong>Updated December 24, 2025 at 07:28 AM ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>There is a mystique around turkey frying. It sounds wild to people who haven't seen it, or who have only seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs0KLgNzQHA\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>videos of it going very wrong. \u003c/u>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>When my brother Bruce Inskeep started frying turkeys at his home in Texas 23 years ago, our dad approved, and even paid for the fryer. For the obvious reason, our mom did not approve. But Bruce persisted, safely, and our brother Jim also took it up.\u003c/p>\u003cp>This holiday season, Bruce demonstrated his turkey frying technique for NPR. It's straightforward but requires a little math, a steady hand and a few common-sense steps to keep from burning down the house.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The turkey comes out especially juicy, and fries in less than an hour, compared with several hours in an oven. The process is so fast that Bruce sometimes makes extras for his neighbors in suburban Dallas.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"I think the most I've ever fried in a day, besides my own, is four,\" he said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>You can hear Bruce's turkey frying demonstration by playing the audio story above. It's worth it just to hear the turkey going into the boiling oil.\u003c/p>\u003cp>If you want to know how it's done — or try it yourself — below are some turkey frying basics from Bruce. We also called the Butterball Turkey Hotline, an advice line for turkey cooking tips that is staffed through Dec. 24, and their guidance was similar.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Turkey frying is an outdoor sport\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Do not do this in the house or anywhere near the house. Bruce does it in his backyard on a stone patio, which he has covered with aluminum foil to avoid grease spatter. \"Don't fry a turkey on a wooden deck, for God's sake,\" Bruce said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Use safety equipment\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Bruce wears a pair of long heat-resistant gloves around the hot oil. He also has two fire extinguishers handy. \"Never had to use them, but always good to have them,\" he said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Use a propane fryer and know its capacity\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>You want enough oil to cover the turkey, but not so much that it spills over. Bruce will often conduct a \"displacement test\" with water to know how many gallons are right for the size of turkey he is putting into the tank. On this day, he poured 3.5 gallons of peanut oil for his 16-pound turkey. A larger turkey would call for less.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>You may re-use the oil\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Before frying the turkey, some people will use the oil to fry other foods, such as french fries, which will later affect the taste of the fried turkey.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Preheat the oil\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The goal is 350 degrees. Bruce heated the oil to 400 degrees before the turkey went in, calculating that the room-temperature turkey would \"drastically reduce the temp.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Notice we said room temperature \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Butterball folks emphasize that you should thaw the turkey before it goes in. Bruce thawed his turkey days in advance.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Take it easy\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Lifting the turkey on a specially made hook, Bruce lowered it into the tank. He did not drop it into the tank, as you see in the videos of turkey frying gone wrong.\"You do a gradual dip,\" he said. \"The name of the game is to put this in slowly, because sometimes the turkey has water on it. Oil and water do not mix.\" As we watched Bruce, he took well over a minute from when the turkey first touched the oil until it was fully covered and settled in.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Fry it for 3 to 4 minutes per pound of turkey\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>In this case, a 16-pound turkey for 3.5 minutes per pound works out to 56 minutes. There's a bit of art with the science — since Bruce added a few extra minutes because it was an exceedingly cold day for Texas, and the fryer briefly dropped below 350 degrees.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Don't leave the fryer unattended\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>This is a good time to stand around and swap family stories, as you will hear Bruce doing in the radio story.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Remove the turkey as slowly as you lowered it and give it 20 minutes to cool\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Since I wasn't at the house to taste the result, we got an independent assessment from Abigail Ruhman of our local station KERA in Dallas, who recorded the sound for the radio story. Ruhman pronounced the fried turkey excellent — even though she said she has \"never actually really liked turkey.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>I also asked Bruce if fried turkey does well as leftovers.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"Usually, there aren't any,\" he said. \u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2025 NPR\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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