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Charlie Crist
stated on September 19, 2016 a debate:

"In the mid 1990s, in our state, (Florida was) No. 1 in violent crime in America. ... The only concern I had was for the citizens of Florida, who were subjected to a violent crime every three minutes and 45 seconds."

True

By Allison Graves • September 20, 2016

Charley Wilkison
stated on July 15, 2016 an interview with Laura Rice for the Texas Standard:

"Texas has lost the most law enforcement officers in the line of duty of any state in America."

True

By Rye Druzin • September 19, 2016

Kamala Harris
stated on August 22, 2016 a tweet. :

"Over the last 40 years, this country’s prison population has grown by 500 percent."

Mostly True

By Chris Nichols • September 16, 2016

Chris Sununu
stated on September 7, 2016 an ad:

Says crime is ‘rising’ in Manchester and has gone up 19 percent under Mayor Ted Gatsas.

Half-True

By Ella Nilsen • September 12, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 a speech on immigration in Phoenix:

"Since 2013 alone, the Obama administration has allowed 300,000 criminal aliens to return back into United States communities. These are individuals encountered or identified by (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), but who were not detained or processed for deportation because it wouldn't have been politically correct."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • September 2, 2016

Sean Hannity
stated on August 23, 2016 a slide presented on Hannity’s show during an Austin interview of Donald Trump:

Says that in 2015, "illegal" immigrants accounted for 75 percent of federal drug possession convictions and 5 percent to 30 percent of convictions for murder and kidnapping plus two other crimes.

True

By W. Gardner Selby • September 2, 2016

Paul Ryan
stated on June 19, 2016 a TV interview:

Under the current procedure, if someone "on a terror watch list" tries to buy a gun, authorities are notified.

Half-True

By Jonathan Anderson • September 2, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on September 1, 2016 x:

Says Alex Jones "said that the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there."

True

By Dylan Baddour, W. Gardner Selby • September 1, 2016

Gwen Moore
stated on August 15, 2016 an interview:

Milwaukee has "the highest incarceration rate among African-American men in the country."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • August 31, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 29, 2016 a tweet:

"Inner-city crime is reaching record levels."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2016

Reince Priebus
stated on August 28, 2016 an interview during NBC's Meet the Press:

Says Hillary Clinton "is the one that labeled African-American youth as ‘superpredators.’"

Mostly True

By Allison Graves • August 28, 2016

Lamar Smith
stated on July 19, 2016 remarks to the Texas delegation to the Republican National Convention:

"One third of all federal prisoners today are illegal immigrants."

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • August 25, 2016

Edward Flynn
stated on July 8, 2016 a news conference:

Milwaukee police use deadly force at a rate that is "among the lowest" in the country.

Half-True

By Jacob Carpenter, Tom Kertscher • August 19, 2016

National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on August 2, 2016 a television ad:

"In Catherine Cortez Masto's last term as attorney general, Nevada murder went up 11 percent, robbery went up 28 percent, rape 51 percent. When Cortez Masto left office, Nevada ranked as America's third most dangerous state."

Mostly False

By Riley Snyder • August 10, 2016

Milwaukeeans for Self-Governance
stated on July 20, 2016 a radio ad:

Says Milwaukee County district attorney candidate Verona Swanigan "has worked as a prosecutor."

False

By Tom Kertscher • August 4, 2016

David A. Clarke Jr.
stated on July 17, 2016 an interview:

Says Barack Obama "said black males are two times more likely to be shot by a law enforcement officer than white males" and "that is a lie" because "there is no data."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • August 3, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on July 27, 2016 a speech:

"We fixed a loophole in the (gun) background record check system so that we could make our commonwealth safer."

True

By Sean Gorman • July 29, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on July 27, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention:

"Illegal immigration and the crime rate are as low as they’ve been in decades."

Mostly True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 28, 2016

Amy Klobuchar
stated on July 26, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention:

"Human trafficking is the third-biggest criminal enterprise in the world."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • July 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 22, 2016 a campaign rally in Cleveland:

Says Ted Cruz "never denied" his father was photographed with Lee Harvey Oswald.

Pants on Fire!

By Dylan Baddour • July 22, 2016

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