Stand up for the facts!

Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy.
We need your help.

More Info

I would like to contribute

$

Latest Fact-Checks In Crime

Clear
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on August 17, 2014 a TV ad:
Says Rick Scott has "teamed up with a felon convicted of running a Ponzi scheme to smear Charlie Crist."
False
By Amy Sherman • September 2, 2014
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on July 21, 2014 a news story:
At "least a quarter of those apprehended" at the border "have criminal records."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 29, 2014
American LeadHERship PAC
American LeadHERship PAC
stated on August 27, 2014 a campaign mailing:
"There have been at least 100 shootings each year [Angel Taveras] has been mayor" of Providence.
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 29, 2014
Brad Schimel
Brad Schimel
stated on August 15, 2014 an interview:
Heroin and prescription opioids are "the number one cause of accidental or preventable death in Wisconsin."
False
By Tom Kertscher • August 27, 2014
Marc Lamont Hill
Marc Lamont Hill
stated on August 20, 2014 a CNN segment:
"Every 28 hours" an unarmed black person is shot by a cop.
False
By Katie Sanders • August 26, 2014
Juan Williams
Juan Williams
stated on August 24, 2014 comments on Fox News Sunday:
The No. 1 cause of death for African-American males 15-34 is murder.
True
By Linda Qiu • August 24, 2014
Henry Cuellar
Henry Cuellar
stated on July 16, 2014:
Says drug cartels are using social media to offer rebates so more children from Central America get smuggled to the United States.
Mostly False
By Nicole Chavez, W. Gardner Selby • August 22, 2014
Michael Medved
Michael Medved
stated on August 19, 2014 a Web post from the "Michael Medved Show":
"More whites than blacks are victims of deadly police shootings."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • August 21, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 14, 2014 an opinion column:
"Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts."
True
By Lauren Carroll • August 21, 2014
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on August 17, 2014 a commentary:
Under Rosemary Lehmberg, the "Travis County D.A.’s office" convened the grand jury that indicted Rick Perry.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 21, 2014
Jay Nixon
Jay Nixon
stated on August 17, 2014 on ABC's "This Week":
"I've been here almost every day."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • August 18, 2014
John Oliver
John Oliver
stated on August 17, 2014 a segment on his show, "Last Week Tonight":
"The number of SWAT raids have gone up by 1,400 percent since the 1980s."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 18, 2014
Bob Donovan
Bob Donovan
stated on July 29, 2014 an interview:
Under Mayor Tom Barrett, the number of Milwaukee police officers "has not increased."
True
By Dave Umhoefer, Devon Waugh • August 18, 2014
Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell
stated on August 17, 2014 an episode of NBC's "Meet the Press":
In Ferguson, Mo., "you've got three black officers and 50 white officers with a town that is 67 percent African-American."  
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • August 17, 2014
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on July 11, 2014 a Facebook photo post:
Says Ted Cruz "was just bribed by the Kochs to introduce a bill that would give them and their allies America’s national forests, parks, and other public lands and open them for mining, drilling, fracking and logging."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • August 17, 2014
X posts
X posts
stated on August 13, 2014 posts on Twitter:
The wife of the Ferguson, Mo., police chief said African-Americans in Ferguson "are feral and violent."  
Pants on Fire!
By Aaron Sharockman • August 14, 2014
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on August 5, 2014 a campaign ad:
Says he "voted for even stronger protections (in the Violence Against Women Act) than Obama's agenda will allow."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • August 13, 2014
Alison Lundergan Grimes
Alison Lundergan Grimes
stated on July 30, 2014 a campaign ad:
Says Mitch McConnell voted "two times against the Violence Against Women Act."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • August 13, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on August 7, 2014 a TV ad:
Says that, as a Supreme Court justice, Greg Abbott found that a company whose vacuum cleaners were sold door to door "had no responsibility" in the hiring of a salesman who raped a customer.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 8, 2014
Juan
Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa
stated on July 21, 2014 a press release:
"We have less crime in the (Rio Grande) Valley than we do in other major Texas cities."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 8, 2014
Previous Next