Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
Both official U.S. government crime measures — the FBI's NIBRS and the Bureau of Justice Statistics' NCVS — directly contradict this claim. The NCVS shows the violent crime rate peaked in 2022 at 9.8 per 1,000 persons and has not significantly changed since, while the FBI's NIBRS data shows violent crime rates fluctuating narrowly between 3.7 and 4.0 per 1,000 persons over the past decade with no recent surge. Historically, violent crime rates in the 1980s and 1990s were roughly twice current l…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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