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Latest Fact-Checks In Criminal Justice

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Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on October 7, 2015 a commentary
From 2014 to 2015, Austin’s "murder rate is up a whopping 83 percent."
Mostly False
By Philip Jankowski, W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas
"We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 the first Democratic debate
"Today in America, we have more people in jail than any other country on Earth."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 25, 2015 comments to reporters
A state agency wanted to fire an employee who spent four hours per day watching pornography, but the state "employment commission reinstated the person."
Mostly True
October 7, 2015
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on September 3, 2015 an interview by David Brown, host of the Texas Standard
"100 percent of the crime is committed, in estimate, by about 15 percent of the population."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • October 6, 2015
Jeremy Bird
Jeremy Bird
stated on October 2, 2015 a tweet after the shootings at an Oregon community college
"90% of Americans want national background checks that close loopholes."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2015
Butch Conway
Butch Conway
stated on September 16, 2015 press conference
The racial and ethnic makeup of the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office mirrors the community it serves.  
True
By Nancy Badertscher • September 29, 2015
Casey Cagle
Casey Cagle
stated on September 8, 2015 press release
"Eighty-three law enforcement officers have died in the line of duty this year. Twenty-four of them were shot and killed in cold blood."
True
By Nancy Badertscher • September 22, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 13, 2015 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
"I'm the only governor in America ... who signed a law that says there needs to be an independent investigation any time there's a death of someone in police custody."
True
By Jon Greenberg • September 13, 2015
Viral image
Viral image
stated on August 26, 2015 an Internet graphic
Bernie Sanders opposes the death penalty, and Hillary Clinton supports it.
Mostly True
By Will Cabaniss • September 2, 2015
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on August 26, 2015 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
September 1, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 21, 2015 answering a reporter in Iowa
"In the year 2013, the Obama administration released 104,000 criminal illegal aliens. They released 196 murderers – people with homicide convictions, who are here illegally."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 28, 2015
Julius Jones
Julius Jones
stated on August 17, 2015 an interview on MSNBC
"The policy mistakes that ... the Clintons made got us, in large degree, to the situation that we are in today with mass incarceration."
Half-True
By Will Cabaniss • August 25, 2015
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on August 5, 2015 a web post.
"The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • August 10, 2015
Mark Obenshain
Mark Obenshain
stated on July 21, 2015 a radio interview
Since parole abolition, Virginia's "crime rate has fallen to third lowest in the country, our recidivism rate is down 20 percent and that’s the second lowest in the country."  
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • August 3, 2015
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on July 27, 2015 a post on Instagram
"We built a new prison every 10 days between 1990 and 2005 to keep up with our mass incarceration explosion of nonviolent offenders."
Mostly True
By Keely Herring • July 31, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his speech declaring his candidacy for president
"I deployed the Texas National Guard" to the Texas-Mexico border. "And the policy worked; apprehensions at the border declined 74 percent."
Mostly False
By Bradley Saacks • July 26, 2015
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on June 14, 2015 an opinion column
"Jasper County in Texas raised property taxes by 7 percent in order to pay for one death penalty case."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 9, 2015
Cornell William Brooks
Cornell William Brooks
stated on June 21, 2015 comments on Face the Nation
"We have at least 200,000 to 300,000 hate crimes in a given year."
Mostly True
June 25, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 20, 2015 a tweet
"Here are the stats: Per population, we kill each other with guns at a rate 297x more than Japan, 49x more than France, 33x more than Israel."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2015
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