Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (97% confidence)
Every major official data source directly contradicts this claim. The FBI's UCR series shows the violent crime rate peaked in 1991 at 758.2 per 100,000 people; the 2024 rate was 359.1 per 100,000 — less than half the 1991 peak. The Bureau of Justice Statistics' victimization survey (NCVS) tells the same story: the 1993–1994 rate was around 79–80 per 1,000 people age 12 and older, versus just 23.3 in 2024. No revision or restatement to any of these official series has changed this conclusion.
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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