Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (97% confidence)
The claim is directly contradicted by multiple official primary sources. The FBI's 2025 data, released August 2026, shows violent crime fell 9.3% from 2024 to 2025 — the largest single-year decline since 1937 — and the murder rate of 4.1 per 100,000 tied its lowest point since FBI tracking began in 1936. The FBI UCR historical record places the all-time peak at 758.2 violent crimes per 100,000 in 1991, roughly double the current rate of approximately 359 per 100,000.
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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