Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
FBI UCR data and BJS statistics consistently show that U.S. violent crime rates peaked in the early 1990s — around 758 per 100,000 people in 1991 — and have remained well below that level ever since. The 2023 rate was approximately 400 per 100,000, roughly half the historical peak. Most recently, the FBI reported that violent crime fell an estimated 9.3% between 2024 and 2025, moving further from any peak. The claim that violent crime is at an all-time high is directly contradicted by the offic…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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