Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (95% confidence)
Both the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program and the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey show that violent crime peaked in the early 1990s — with the UCR recording its highest rate around 1991 at approximately 758 violent crimes per 100,000 people — and has fallen by roughly half since then. The 2022 rate stood around 380 per 100,000, and FBI data through 2024 confirm no return to 1990s levels. No major government dataset supports the claim that current violent c…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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