Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (95% confidence)
Every major official data source — FBI UCR/NIBRS, BJS NCVS, and BJS crime estimation data — shows violent crime rates well below their historical peak. The FBI's 2024 data puts the national violent crime rate at 359.1 per 100,000, compared to roughly 758 per 100,000 at the early-1990s peak. BJS NCVS data tells the same story. The current rate is approximately half the all-time high, and both 2024 and preliminary 2025 data show continued declines.
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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