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Police Chief Billy Grogan
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
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."
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By Christian Belanger • 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
Bernie Sanders
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."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2015
Van Wanggaard
Van Wanggaard
stated on April 21, 2015 a legislative floor debate:
"There's no statistical evidence that" a waiting period for handgun purchases "reduces violence whatsoever."  
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By Tom Kertscher • April 27, 2015
Edward Flynn
Edward Flynn
stated on April 14, 2015 a news conference:
In Wisconsin, a "second arrest for carrying pot is a felony," but a second or subsequent arrest "for carrying a gun illegally is a misdemeanor."  
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By Tom Kertscher • April 15, 2015
Ken Plum
Ken Plum
stated on March 12, 2015:
"We've got 40 years of study now that show that, with a good preschool start, you're less likely to be on public dole, you're less likely to be in prison."
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By Sean Gorman • March 23, 2015
John Legend
John Legend
stated on February 22, 2015 a speech at the Oscars:
"We live in the most incarcerated country in the world."
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By Katie Sanders • February 23, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 8, 2015 a public-service video during the Grammys:
"Nearly one in five women in America has been a victim of rape or attempted rape."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 2015
Jeff Clemens
Jeff Clemens
stated on January 20, 2015 a Senate Ethics and Elections committee hearing:
Online voter registration is a "more secure" way of doing voter registration.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 23, 2015
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on November 23, 2014 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Says "93 percent of blacks in America are killed by other blacks."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • November 25, 2014
Jack Seiler
Jack Seiler
stated on November 5, 2014 a news release:
"No one was taken into custody" for feeding the homeless.
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By Amy Sherman • November 17, 2014
Jorge Elorza
Jorge Elorza
stated on September 30, 2014 a debate:
"In the last six years of Cianci’s administration violent crime was down in the United States. It was down in the region. It was down in Rhode Island. But it was up in Providence."  
Mostly True
By Alex Kuffner • October 6, 2014
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on September 19, 2014 a debate in the Rio Grande Valley.:
"The FBI is involved in an investigation about people in the Rio Grande Valley who are using cocaine to buy votes."      
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 24, 2014
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on September 14, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
Children who witness domestic violence are "twice as likely to commit it themselves."  
Mostly True
By Derek Tsang • September 16, 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
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."
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By Louis Jacobson • 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."  
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By Katie Sanders • August 17, 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.
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By W. Gardner Selby • August 8, 2014
John Chisholm
John Chisholm
stated on June 2, 2014 a letter:
Says Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has "deputies collecting overtime while sitting passively in chairs watching courthouse security personnel work."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • June 30, 2014
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