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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

Harry Houck
stated on July 21, 2015 a panel debate on "CNN Tonight with Don Lemon":

"The law says ... when a police officer stops you, do whatever he says and then deal with it later."

False

By Will Cabaniss • July 30, 2015

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

Atlanta neighborhood association
stated on July 9, 2015 an online community forum:

The murder rate in Atlanta is on the rise this year.

True

By April Hunt • July 22, 2015

Police Chief Billy Grogan
stated on July 14, 2015 press release:

Georgia has more than 700 law enforcement agencies, and fewer than 20 percent of them are state-certified.

Mostly True

By Nancy Badertscher • July 21, 2015

Hans von Spakovsky
stated on July 9, 2015 an article on the Heritage Foundation website:

"134,000 (criminal) aliens have been released by the (Obama) administration in just the past two years."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • July 16, 2015

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

Donald Trump
stated on July 1, 2015 an interview on Fox Business Network:

"Hundreds of thousands of (illegal immigrants are) going to state and federal penitentiaries."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • July 6, 2015

Randy Forbes
stated on June 16, 2015 a written statement.:

"The average age a child is trafficked into the commercial sex trade industry is between 11 and 14 years old."

Half-True

By Sean Gorman • July 6, 2015

Gavin McInnes
stated on June 22, 2015 a broadcast of "The Greg Gutfeld Show":

"50 percent of murders in Texas have been linked to illegal aliens."

False

By Jon Greenberg • July 1, 2015

Various media reports 2
stated on June 18, 2015 church shooting aftermath:

Only five states, including Georgia, do not have a hate crimes law.

True

By Nancy Badertscher • July 1, 2015

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

By Christian Belanger • June 25, 2015

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

Barack Obama
stated on June 18, 2015 remarks at the White House:

"This type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency."

Mostly False

By Keely Herring, Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on June 11, 2015 an interview on PBS:

"A black male baby born today, if we do not change the system, stands a one-in-three chance (of) ending up in jail."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2015

Hillary Davis
stated on May 6, 2015 a hearing at the General Assembly :

"The profit [from automated traffic enforcement cameras] is going to the private corporations, not to the city or state."

False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 14, 2015

John Oliver
stated on June 7, 2015 a segment about bail on "Last Week Tonight":

Says "Florida is a model" for successful pretrial release programs.

Half-True

By Katie Sanders • June 12, 2015

Russell Brand
stated on May 26, 2015 an episode of 'The Trews':

"The American murder rate is 50 times that of any other developed nation."

False

By Katie Sanders • June 2, 2015

Robert Puente
stated on May 12, 2015 remarks to the Milwaukee Common Council:

If Milwaukee approves reducing its maximum forfeiture for marijuana possession to $50, the city would have "23 different bicycle violations that have a higher forfeiture."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • June 1, 2015

Rebecca Quigley
stated on May 14, 2015 a comment on a "State of the State" TV program.:

"Once a woman enters into the sex trade, her average life expectancy is seven years."

False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 31, 2015

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