Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (97% confidence)
Multiple independent primary sources — including FBI Crime Data Explorer, the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey, and CDC mortality data — documented that U.S. violent crime rates peaked in the early 1990s and have declined substantially since then. The FBI recorded a national violent crime rate of 359.1 per 100,000 in 2024, approximately 47% below the 1991 peak of roughly 758 per 100,000. No government or official source documented violent crime at an all-time hig…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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