Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
The documented evidence directly contradicts this claim. The FBI's Crime Data Explorer shows the national violent crime rate at 359 per 100,000 in 2024 — the lowest recorded level since 1976, when the series begins — and down 5.4% from 2023. Multiple authoritative sources place the actual all-time high in the early 1990s, around 1991, not anywhere near the present. The 2022 NCVS spike (up 44%) was real and notable, but it was a post-pandemic surge that then leveled off, not a record-breaking pe…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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