Latest Fact-Checks In Public Safety

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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 10, 2023 a speech in New York
"The Republican plan would cut federal law enforcement officers — 30,000 — including 11,000 FBI agents, 2,000 border agents, DEA agents, and so on."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 18, 2023
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on January 29, 2023 an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press"
"I got a list of 20 jurisdictions that defunded the police to the tune of over $1 billion total."
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • February 1, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 11, 2022 Facebook post
“With the combined salary of the 87,000 new IRS Agents ($81,456 average annual salary), you could put a police officer ($55,117) in every public school in the nation (97,568) and still have 31,007 police officers or $1,709,012,819 left over.”
Mostly False
September 8, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on May 11, 2022 News release
In the immediate wake of a fire and vandalism at the Madison headquarters of an anti-abortion group, Democrats had not condemned “activists who are engaging in this repugnant illegal activity.”
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • May 31, 2022
Republican Party of Wisconsin
Republican Party of Wisconsin
stated on May 2, 2022 Newsletter
On Gov. Tony “Evers’ watch…the efficiency of the state crime lab has plummeted.”
Mostly False
By Laura Schulte • May 26, 2022
Lars Larson
Lars Larson
stated on March 21, 2022 a Facebook post
“Judge Jackson doesn’t think perverts should have to register (as sex offenders). She says it ‘stigmatizes’ THEM.”
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • March 25, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on May 30, 2021 a Twitter post
“Police budgets are at their highest they've ever been, there hasn’t actually been any defunding the police.”
Mostly False
June 18, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 26, 2021 a Facebook post
Police defunding is to blame for “skyrocketing murder rates” in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Portland, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • May 28, 2021
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 19, 2021 a speech
“If you look at some of these places that (reduced police funding), they’ve already seen crime go up."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • May 4, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 15, 2021 a Facebook post
Says a photo shows armed soldiers protecting Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • January 16, 2021
Larry Elder
Larry Elder
stated on June 2, 2020 a Fox News appearance
"Last year, there were nine unarmed black people killed (by law enforcement). Nineteen unarmed white people.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • June 5, 2020
Kirk Cox
Kirk Cox
stated on October 13, 2019 a TV ad.
"Sheila Bynum-Coleman said, ‘We need to get the police out of the schools.’"  
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • October 22, 2019
Kevin Graham
Kevin Graham
stated on June 21, 2019 in an interview
Says the U.S. Department of Justice has "seen in the past" that police department "consent decrees don’t work, that there’s very little change, that oftentimes immediately after a consent decree goes into effect, crime actually goes up."
Mostly False
By Duncan Agnew, Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 30, 2019
Jim Durkin
Jim Durkin
stated on June 3, 2019 a radio interview
"There are parts of I-80 near Joliet that school buses are not allowed to cross because of the fragile nature of a bridge."
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 16, 2019
LaTonya Johnson
LaTonya Johnson
stated on April 3, 2019 a tweet
"Our road conditions cost WI families. In Milwaukee, the average cost per driver is $2,300."
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • April 26, 2019
Lena Taylor
Lena Taylor
stated on March 14, 2019 a community meeting
Says Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett did not want a juvenile facility in Milwaukee, "has never been to a juvenile facility," and "didn't want it to be done."
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • April 2, 2019
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on September 26, 2018 a campaign ad
"Under Scott Walker, the Department of Corrections has only 18 people tracking 25,000 sex offenders" and "there are nearly 3,000 sex offenders that are unaccounted for."
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • October 29, 2018
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on August 17, 2018 a TV interview
Says John Cox "parroted, parroted Trump — almost verbatim — on the children’s separation issues at the border."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • September 12, 2018
Mahlon Mitchell
Mahlon Mitchell
stated on April 30, 2018 a website campaign statement
Says he was "instrumental to passing two (recent) pieces of legislation that were a huge victory for firefighters across the state."
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • May 7, 2018
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on March 7, 2018 a speech in Sacramento
"California won’t let law enforcement officers like you and your people transfer prisoners to ICE custody or even to communicate with ICE that you’re about to release them from your custody — people that ICE is looking for."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • March 7, 2018
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