Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
Multiple independent federal primary sources — the FBI UCR/NIBRS series and the BJS National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) — directly contradict this claim. The FBI UCR violent-crime rate peaked in 1991 at 758.2 per 100,000 persons, and the 2023 rate (363.8–387.8 per 100,000 depending on estimation method) is roughly half that peak. The BJS NCVS similarly documents that the violent victimization rate declined from 79.8 per 1,000 persons in 1993 to 22.5 per 1,000 in 2023, a drop of more than…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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