Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (97% confidence)
Every major federal data series — the FBI UCR/Crime Data Explorer, the BJS National Crime Victimization Survey, and the CDC's homicide mortality data — shows that U.S. violent crime peaked in the early 1990s, not today. The FBI's 2024 national estimate puts the violent crime rate at 359.1 per 100,000, compared to the 1991 peak of 758.2 per 100,000 — less than half the all-time high. The BJS NCVS shows victimization rates were 79.8 per 1,000 persons in 1993 versus 23.3 per 1,000 in 2024. Prelimi…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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