Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
The documented evidence directly contradicts this claim. FBI data shows the U.S. violent crime rate in 2023 was about 6% lower than in 2020, and the FBI's 2024 report released August 2025 shows a further decline, with violent crime occurring every 25.9 seconds on average — a rate well below the peak years of the early-to-mid 1990s when criminologists consistently place the modern U.S. violent crime peak. The University of Pennsylvania's Department of Criminology notes the violent crime rate was…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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