Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (95% confidence)
Both major primary data sources — the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program and the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey — show that U.S. violent crime peaked in the early 1990s and has declined dramatically since then. The 2022 violent crime rate was roughly half the 1993 peak rate, and the FBI's most recent 2024 data continues to track well below historical highs. There is no primary-source data showing violent crime at an all-time high.
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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