Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (97% confidence)
Official national data from multiple primary federal sources — the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program, the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey, and CDC mortality data — all document that U.S. violent crime rates peaked in the early 1990s and are currently far below those historical highs. The FBI reported a violent crime rate of approximately 759 per 100,000 in 1991, compared to 359.1 per 100,000 in 2024; the BJS NCVS recorded violent victimization at 79.8 per 1,…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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