Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (95% confidence)
Multiple independent primary sources — the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program and the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey — show that national violent crime rates are well below their historical peak. The FBI recorded a violent crime rate of 359.1 per 100,000 in 2024, down from 2023, and far below the rates seen in the early 1990s, which were roughly double current levels. No government primary source — FBI, BJS, or CDC — documents or characterizes current viole…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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