Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (97% confidence)
Every major federal data series — FBI UCR, BJS NCVS, and CDC vital statistics — shows that U.S. violent crime peaked in the early 1990s, not now. The FBI violent crime rate hit roughly 750–760 per 100,000 people around 1991–1992; recent years are roughly half that. There was a notable surge in 2020–2022, but that surge brought rates back toward mid-2000s levels, not anywhere near the all-time peak.
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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