Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (95% confidence)
The official FBI data directly contradicts this claim. Violent crime in the U.S. peaked in the early 1990s at rates roughly double today's levels, and the most recent data shows further declines — the FBI's 2024 statistics recorded a violent crime every 25.9 seconds on average, and provisional estimates show a 9.3% further drop from 2024 to 2025. There is no primary-source data from the FBI UCR program or BJS NCVS supporting an all-time high.
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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