Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (97% confidence)
Every major federal data source — the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program, the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey, and CDC homicide mortality data — shows that U.S. violent crime peaked in the early 1990s and remains well below that peak today. The FBI's most recent release (2024 data, published August 2025) puts the national violent crime rate at 359.1 per 100,000 inhabitants, compared to the 1991 peak of 758.2 per 100,000 — less than half the historic high. Th…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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