Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
The documented record from the two primary authoritative sources — the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program and the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey — directly contradicts this claim. FBI-reported violent crime rates peaked in the early 1990s and remain well below those levels today. The NCVS similarly shows rates far below historical peaks, with the 2024 rate (8.9 per 1,000 persons age 12+) below even the recent 2022 local peak of 9.8. The claim is false by an…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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