Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (97% confidence)
Every major federal crime data series — FBI UCR, BJS NCVS, and BJS NIBRS Estimation Program — shows that U.S. violent crime peaked in the early 1990s and remains far below those levels today. The FBI recorded a violent crime rate of 758.2 per 100,000 in 1991; the 2024 rate was 359.1 per 100,000, less than half that peak. The BJS NCVS independently shows the same pattern: 79.8 violent victimizations per 1,000 persons in 1993 versus 22.5 per 1,000 in 2023. Preliminary FBI data for 2025 shows furt…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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