Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (95% confidence)
Every major federal data source contradicts this claim. The FBI reported a 4.5% decrease in violent crime in 2024 compared to 2023, with murders down nearly 15%, and the rolling April 2025–March 2026 trend shows further declines across all violent-crime categories. The BJS law-enforcement rate fell from 393.9 to 370.8 per 100,000 between 2023 and 2024, and the NCVS victimization rate of 23.3 per 1,000 in 2024 is far below the early-1990s peak — the historical high-water mark for U.S. violent cr…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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