Fact-check: “Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time high”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
Both major federal crime data sources — the FBI's UCR and the BJS's NCVS — show that current U.S. violent crime rates are well below their historical peaks in the early 1990s. The FBI's 2024 data, released in August 2025, shows violent crime occurring roughly every 25.9 seconds nationally, but the long-term trend line puts today's rates significantly under the peak years. The University of Pennsylvania's Department of Criminology documented that the violent crime rate in the 1990s was nearly tw…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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