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Latest Fact-Checks In Public Safety

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Ted Deutch
Ted Deutch
stated on February 21, 2018 in a CNN town hall:
"Mass shootings went up 200 percent in the decade after the assault weapons ban expired."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • February 23, 2018
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on December 18, 2017 in a news conference:
In Milwaukee, "murder is up an astonishing 57 percent."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • January 3, 2018
Alyssa Milano
Alyssa Milano
stated on November 5, 2017 in a tweet:
"There are no background checks on long guns (AR15s) in Texas."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • November 6, 2017
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on October 4, 2017 in a Facebook post:
"People who die from a home invasion make up a sad but minuscule .04% of all gun murders in the U.S. And over a third of them are killed by their own gun that the criminal has either stolen or wrestled from them."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • October 25, 2017
Matt Gaetz
Matt Gaetz
stated on August 18, 2017 in a newsletter:
"As of 2014, illegal aliens made up roughly 3.5 percent of our population, and committed over 10 percent of all murders."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • August 30, 2017
Senate Leadership Fund
Senate Leadership Fund
stated on August 22, 2017 in in an ad:
Says Kelli Ward hosted a town hall on "chemtrail conspiracy theories" and is open to sponsoring chemtrails legislation.
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • August 25, 2017
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on August 15, 2017 in Press release:
House Bill 330 "grants immunity from liability to motorists who strike protesters."
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • August 16, 2017
Judy Chu
Judy Chu
stated on May 4, 2017 in a press release:
The GOP health bill "would once again allow being a rape or domestic violence victim to be a pre-existing condition."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • May 9, 2017
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 20, 2017 in posts on social media:
"After prohibition ended, police deaths didn't reach 200 a year again until the year Nixon declared war on drugs."
Mostly False
By Will Doran • April 24, 2017
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on October 11, 2016 in a North Carolina governor's race debate:
Says Syrian refugees are not being vetted, and "the FBI is not even being told where they are."
Mostly False
By Will Doran • October 12, 2016
Corey Stewart
Corey Stewart
stated on July 8, 2016 in a Facebook post.:
Says Hillary Clinton and Ralph Northam "label police as racists."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • July 26, 2016
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
stated on June 23, 2016 in a comedy sketch:
Says "Paul Ryan shut off the C-SPAN cameras when the Democrats started their sit-in."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 27, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 4, 2016 in an interview with NBC News:
Germany "is crime-riddled right now" because of migration to Europe.
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 11, 2016
Tony Capezza
Tony Capezza
stated on January 26, 2016 in testimony at General Assembly :
"In New England, Rhode Island has the second highest number of police officers being assaulted."
Mostly False
By Mark Reynolds • February 14, 2016
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 28, 2016 in a Republican debate:
"A third of the budget for the city of Ferguson (Missouri) was being reaped by civil fines."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 29, 2016
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on August 26, 2015 in comments to reporters:
Says Scott Walker "brags a lot about having an independent agency investigate police shootings. Of course, he didn’t fund it."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • September 1, 2015
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on August 6, 2015 in comments in a GOP debate in Cleveland:
"I was appointed U.S. attorney by President Bush on Sept. 10, 2001."
Mostly False
By Nick Reid • August 7, 2015
Patrick Lynch
Patrick Lynch
stated on November 24, 2014 in a newspaper commentary:
Exposure to the electromagnetic fields from power lines "has been associated with childhood leukemia and other diseases."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 2, 2015
Everytown for Gun Safety
Everytown for Gun Safety
stated on December 10, 2014 in a recent report:
Georgia has had 12 school shootings in the two years since the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than any other state.
Mostly False
By April Hunt • December 19, 2014
Richard Saslaw
Richard Saslaw
stated on November 24, 2014 in a presentation.:
Female students at UVA "have a 20 percent chance of being sexually assaulted."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • December 8, 2014
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