Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (90% confidence)
The documented evidence directly contradicts this claim. The FBI's historical data and multiple academic sources show violent crime rates were roughly twice as high in the early 1990s compared to recent years, making 'all-time high' clearly inaccurate. While violent crime did spike during 2020 (a roughly 34% surge in murders in one year), that peak was still well below the rates recorded in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and more recent data through 2024 show rates have declined from even that…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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