Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (90% confidence)
The claim is directly contradicted by multiple authoritative national data sources. FBI UCR data shows violent crime dropped 9.3% between 2024 and 2025, and the University of Pennsylvania's criminology department documents that the violent crime rate was nearly twice as high in the early-to-mid 1990s compared to recent years. The current rate is far below the historical peak of the early 1990s, and even the recent post-pandemic spike in 2020 — the highest point in recent years — has since decli…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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