Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (97% confidence)
Multiple independent primary sources — FBI UCR/CDE, BJS NCVS, and CDC mortality data — all document that national violent crime rates peaked in the early 1990s (FBI rate: ~758 per 100,000 in 1991) and are currently far below that historical peak (FBI rate: ~359 per 100,000 in 2024, a decline of more than 50%). The most recent available data show violent crime declining further in 2023, 2024, and preliminarily in 2025. No documented revision to any of these series reverses the fundamental histor…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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