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Latest Fact-Checks In Crime

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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 14, 2019 a campaign event
The 1994 crime bill "did not generate mass incarceration."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg, John Kruzel • May 30, 2019
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on May 29, 2019 a tweet
Says Donald Trump's claim that "there was insufficient evidence and therefore, in our country, a person is innocent" directly contradicts Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s statement.
Mostly True
By Eric Litke • May 30, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on May 20, 2019 an interview on MSNBC
On the need for independent investigations of police shootings 
Full Flop
By Chris Nichols • May 23, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 14, 2019 a Facebook post
"When you pull up to the gas pump to fill up your car, get your cell phone and search for Bluetooth devices. If a sequence of letters and numbers show up don’t pay at the pump. One of the pumps has a credit card skimmer inside of it. All of these skimmers run on bluetooth."
Half-True
By Cade Moisey, Davis Versprille, Mary Alice Truitt, Patrick Orsagos • May 17, 2019
Jared Kushner
Jared Kushner
stated on April 23, 2019 an interview
Russia’s interference in the 2016 election amounted to "a couple of Facebook ads."
Pants on Fire!
By John Kruzel • April 24, 2019
William Barr
William Barr
stated on April 18, 2019 a press conference
"The White House fully cooperated with the Special Counsel’s investigation."
False
By John Kruzel • April 22, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on March 27, 2019 a CNN town hall in South Carolina
Says President Donald Trump "cut funding from the Justice Department to investigate these domestic terrorist groups, these white supremacist groups."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • April 11, 2019
Paul Bettencourt
Paul Bettencourt
stated on April 2, 2019 a resolution
"194,000 criminal aliens booked into Texas jails from 2011-2019 were charged with more than 299,000 criminal offenses."
Mostly True
By Madlin Mekelburg • April 8, 2019
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Viral image
stated on March 18, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Donna Brazile is a "criminal."
False
March 29, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 18, 2019 posts online
ATM users in distress can enter their PIN backwards to secretly call the police.
False
By Julianna Rennie • March 26, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on March 17, 2019 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
During her tenure as county attorney in Minnesota, "there was a 65 percent decrease in incarceration of African-Americans."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2019
David Crowley
David Crowley
stated on February 24, 2019 a TV interview
''Over 40 percent of African-American men in (Milwaukee County) have been going to prison for low-level drug offenses, and I think a hundred times that in the city of Madison."
False
By D.L. Davis • March 19, 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
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on February 24, 2019 a podcast
Says handing over arrested undocumented youth to ICE "was an unintended consequence" of a 2008 San Francisco policy that she supported.
False
By Chris Nichols • February 28, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 15, 2019 a tweet
"Since the passage of (the Violence Against Women Act), annual rates of domestic violence have dropped by 63 percent."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2019
Tom McClintock
Tom McClintock
stated on January 29, 2019 a speech
"In 2017, illegal aliens murdered 1,800 Americans."
False
By Chris Nichols • February 20, 2019
Matt Gaetz
Matt Gaetz
stated on February 7, 2019 a CNN interview
"One out of every 5 people that the federal government charges with murder is an illegal alien."
False
By Miriam Valverde • February 19, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 13, 2019 a speech
"Violent crime is now going down for the first time in a long while."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 14, 2019
Matt Gaetz
Matt Gaetz
stated on February 7, 2019 an interview on CNN
"In 1992, the Democratic Party had in their platform provisions that said that illegal aliens were coming in this country, committing felonies, sent back and then they were right back across the border to do the same thing."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • February 13, 2019
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Viral image
stated on February 4, 2019 a Facebook post
Muslim immigrants were responsible for 11,000 of 13,000 knife attacks in London in the past 12 months.
False
February 8, 2019
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