Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (97% confidence)
Both major federal measurement systems — the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program and the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey — document that U.S. violent crime rates peaked in the early 1990s and have declined substantially since. The FBI recorded a national violent crime rate of approximately 758 per 100,000 in 1991, roughly double the 359.1 per 100,000 recorded in 2024, and preliminary FBI data for 2025 show an additional estimated 9.3% decline. The claim is di…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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