Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
The claim is directly contradicted by FBI and BJS primary-source data. The FBI's preliminary 2025 figures show murders dropped an estimated 18.1% that year, and the BJS's 2024 NCVS data places the violent crime rate at 8.9 per 1,000 persons — below the recent 2022 peak of 9.8 per 1,000. Historically, the violent crime rate in the early 1990s was nearly twice the current rate, making an 'all-time high' claim unsupported by the documented record.
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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