Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (95% confidence)
Both primary federal crime data series — the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting/NIBRS data and the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) — document that violent crime rates peaked in the early 1990s, not in recent years. BJS reported that from 1993 to 2022, the rate of violent victimization declined 51%, from 79.8 to 39.1 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older. While some upticks occurred around 2015–2016 and again in 2020–2021 (particularly in homicide),…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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