Latest Fact-Checks In Crime

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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 15, 2024 a speech at a police memorial service
“Violent crime is near a record 50-year low.”
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By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on March 7, 2024 Public appearance
“We’re facing situations these days where you have to have two officers in the evidence room in case there’s an accidental (fentanyl) exposure.”
True
By Laura Schulte • March 29, 2024
Kelda Helen Roys
Kelda Helen Roys
stated on February 1, 2024 Public appearance
Minnesota incarcerates “about a third of what Wisconsin does.”
True
By Laura Schulte • February 14, 2024
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on March 20, 2023 a speech at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
“Many law enforcement agencies didn’t submit their (hate crime) data to the FBI.”
True
By Cameron Carr • April 25, 2023
Bryan Steil
Bryan Steil
stated on November 15, 2022 Twitter
In Milwaukee, "The (homicide) rate has nearly doubled in the past two years."
True
By D.L. Davis • December 9, 2022
Levar Stoney
Levar Stoney
stated on June 16, 2022 a tweet.
“In Virginia, Black people are eight times (8X) more likely than white people to die of gun homicide.”
True
By Warren Fiske • June 24, 2022
Cavalier Johnson
Cavalier Johnson
stated on April 9, 2022 TV interview
In a recent year, the Milwaukee Police Department "collected more guns per capita off the streets than in New York.”
True
By Vanessa Swales • May 24, 2022
Eric Toney
Eric Toney
stated on April 14, 2022 News release
The state crime lab under Attorney General Josh Kaul "is testing significantly less items than former AG Brad Schimel and is still taking longer to test many categories of key items in comparison to Schimel, including DNA."
True
By D.L. Davis • May 10, 2022
Keith Pekau
Keith Pekau
stated on April 11, 2022 in a campaign advertisement
We’ve reduced crime to its lowest level in 27 years.
True
By Analisa Trofimuk • May 1, 2022
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 16, 2022 a committee meeting
"In 2020, more journalists were killed in Mexico than in any other country in the world."
True
By Nusaiba Mizan • February 28, 2022
NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
stated on November 8, 2021 a news release
New York is "leading the nation with the lowest imprisonment rate of any large state”
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 19, 2021
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on January 8, 2021 an interview with Ohio reporters
Summer “protesters outside the White House were met with tear gas, rubber bullets, a full militarized response. While ... rioters were able to breach the Capitol.”
True
By Jon Greenberg • January 11, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 5, 2020 an NBC town hall in Miami
The president's own FBI director said that the greatest domestic terrorist threat is white supremacists.
True
By Amy Sherman • October 6, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 26, 2020 a Facebook post
“Video showed police thank (Kyle Rittenhouse) & give him water prior to the killings”
True
By Eric Litke • August 28, 2020
Sunny Hostin
Sunny Hostin
stated on July 15, 2020 an episode of ABC's "The View"
“Homicides are intraracial. When you look at white-on-white crime, it's 84%. Right? Homicides. White people kill white people.”
True
By Bill McCarthy • July 17, 2020
Rob Hutton
Rob Hutton
stated on December 4, 2019 a radio interview
 A "study showed as many as one in four people have had a package stolen from their residence."   
True
By D.L. Davis • December 13, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on July 5, 2019 an interview
"In 2017, we had more marijuana possession arrests in our country than all other violent crimes combined."
True
July 11, 2019
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on March 13, 2019 a news conference
California has "the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere, the largest death row in the United States of America — two times the size of the next largest state: Florida."
True
By Chris Nichols • March 13, 2019
Silvestre Reyes
Silvestre Reyes
stated on May 22, 2012 a TV ad
Says Beto O’Rourke "has a criminal record that includes DWI and burglary arrests."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 22, 2018
Justin Nelson
Justin Nelson
stated on May 29, 2018 a tweet
Says "our indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton is back to being the only statewide official in the country under indictment."  
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 7, 2018
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