Fact-check: “"Violent crime in the United States is at an all-time low"”
Verdict: Misleading (78% confidence)
Documented FBI UCR estimates showed violent-crime rates fell in 2023 and again in 2024, reaching levels close to recent historical lows, but the FBI’s long-running violent-crime series includes much lower rates in earlier decades than the 2024 estimate. BJS’s National Crime Victimization Survey (a separate measure that includes crimes not reported to police) showed the 2023 violent-victimization rate was similar to 2022 and did not document an “all-time low” in that year. Because “all-time low”…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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