Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (96% confidence)
Multiple independent primary sources — the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting program, the BJS National Crime Victimization Survey, and CDC mortality data — all document that U.S. violent crime rates peaked in the early 1990s and remain substantially below those historical peaks. The FBI's 2024 data recorded a violent crime rate of 359.1 per 100,000 inhabitants, compared to the 1991 peak of 758.2 per 100,000; the NCVS recorded 23.3 violent victimizations per 1,000 persons in 2024, compared to approxim…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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