Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (97% confidence)
Two independent federal measurement systems — the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting data and the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey — both show current violent crime rates are roughly half or less of their historical peaks from the early 1990s. The FBI's 2024 estimate puts the national violent crime rate at 359.1 per 100,000 inhabitants, compared to the documented peak of 758.2 per 100,000 in 1991. Preliminary FBI data for 2025 shows a further sharp decline, including…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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