Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (97% confidence)
Multiple independent authoritative sources — the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting program, the BJS National Crime Victimization Survey, and CDC mortality data — consistently document that national violent crime rates peaked in the early 1990s (approximately 758 per 100,000 in 1991 per the FBI series) and remain substantially below those peaks today. The most recent available data (FBI UCR 2024 estimate: 359.1 per 100,000; BJS NCVS 2024: 23.3 victimizations per 1,000 persons) show rates roughly half…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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