Latest Fact-Checks In Criminal Justice

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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.”
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By Laura Schulte • March 29, 2024
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on February 11, 2024 TV interview
“We're having the largest classes of correctional officers we've ever had before.”
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By Sophia Voight • March 6, 2024
Kelda Helen Roys
Kelda Helen Roys
stated on February 1, 2024 Public appearance
Minnesota incarcerates “about a third of what Wisconsin does.”
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By Laura Schulte • February 14, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on March 20, 2023 a news conference
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg “has downgraded over 50% of the felonies to misdemeanors.”
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 8, 2023
Bryan Steil
Bryan Steil
stated on November 15, 2022 Twitter
In Milwaukee, "The (homicide) rate has nearly doubled in the past two years."
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By D.L. Davis • December 9, 2022
A Better Wisconsin Together
A Better Wisconsin Together
stated on September 12, 2022 Campaign ad
Says Tim Michels "opposes closing the loophole that allows domestic abusers to buy guns."
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By D.L. Davis • October 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.”
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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."
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By D.L. Davis • May 10, 2022
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on January 13, 2022 News release
Says he has issued more pardons than “any Wisconsin governor in contemporary history.”
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By Alan Hovorka • February 15, 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”
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 19, 2021
Kirk Cox
Kirk Cox
stated on April 7, 2021 a radio interview.
On Virginia’s new marijuana law: “You can have up to one pound with only a $25 fine.”
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By Warren Fiske • April 28, 2021
Ralph Northam
Ralph Northam
stated on December 3, 2020 a radio interview.
“People of color and those of not, they use marijuana at the same rate. People of color are three times more likely to get arrested and convicted.”
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By Warren Fiske • December 3, 2020
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on November 15, 2020 a TV interview
"We heard from the Department of Homeland Security ... that this was probably the most secure election that’s ever been run in the United States.”
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By Madeline Heim • November 17, 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”
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By Eric Litke • August 28, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 22, 2020 a speech
“Murders this year have spiked 27% in Philadelphia.”
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By Jessica Calefati • July 24, 2020
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on June 11, 2020 an interview
The United States has not completed a “top-to-bottom review of our criminal justice system at the national level since 1965.”
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By Taylor Goldenstein • July 2, 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."   
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By D.L. Davis • December 13, 2019
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on July 26, 2019 a tweet
"More than half of death row prisoners are people of color." 
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By D.L. Davis • October 1, 2019
Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor
stated on May 21, 2019 a tweet
"We saw the prison population expand and vacancy rates for correctional officers go from 2.9% to 15.2%" over the last eight years.
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By D.L. Davis • June 4, 2019
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on October 16, 2018 a campaign advertisement
"He even supports putting a female inmate in shackles during childbirth."
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 19, 2018
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