Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (97% confidence)
Both major national crime measurement series — the FBI's reported crime data and the BJS National Crime Victimization Survey — directly contradict this claim. The FBI's violent crime rate peaked in 1991 at 758.2 per 100,000 people; the 2024 rate is 359.1 per 100,000, less than half that peak. The NCVS shows an even starker gap: victimization rates were around 80 per 1,000 persons in the early 1990s versus roughly 23 per 1,000 in 2022–2024. Preliminary 2025 FBI data shows a further decline, incl…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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