Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (95% confidence)
Both the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting data and the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey show that violent crime peaked in the early 1990s — around 1993 — and has fallen roughly 50% since then. The 2024 violent crime rate documented by the FBI is well below that historical peak. Short-term spikes, like the 2020 homicide surge or the NCVS's 2021–2022 jump in victimization, are real but do not come close to the all-time highs recorded three decades ago.
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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