Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (97% confidence)
Multiple independent primary sources — the FBI Uniform Crime Report, the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey, and CDC mortality data — document that U.S. violent crime rates peaked in the early 1990s (approximately 758 per 100,000 in 1991 per FBI data) and have fallen by roughly half since then. The most recent FBI data (2024) recorded a violent crime rate of approximately 359 per 100,000, which is lower than 2023 and substantially below the historical peak; the BJS…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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