Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
This claim is directly contradicted by multiple official government data sources. FBI and Bureau of Justice Statistics data show violent crime rates in the 2020s are roughly half of what they were at the 1991 peak, and preliminary 2025 FBI data shows an additional sharp drop — including an estimated 18.1% decline in murders. The claim appears to confuse a real but short-lived uptick from the 2021 pandemic-era low with the full historical record.
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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