Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
This claim is directly contradicted by official FBI data. Preliminary FBI figures show murders dropped roughly 18.1% in 2025, and violent crime fell 2% from 2021 to 2022. Long-term trends from both the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program and the National Crime Victimization Survey show violent crime is well below the peaks recorded in the early 1990s, not at any kind of all-time high.
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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