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Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on December 1, 2010 a city council meeting
Four out of 10 homicides are committed by gun in this city.
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By Janie Har • December 23, 2010
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on October 7, 2010 a news release
In Wisconsin, "deaths from domestic violence are at the highest in 10 years."
True
December 2, 2010
Crime Victims United of Oregon
Crime Victims United of Oregon
stated on November 12, 2010 a website
Says Oregon ranks 30th in the nation with regard to its incarceration rate.
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By Ian K. Kullgren • November 19, 2010
Robert Brown
Robert Brown
stated on October 29, 2010 press release
"Animal abuse is often an indicative trait of future acts of violence against humans."
True
By Eric Stirgus • November 10, 2010
Tom Ganley
Tom Ganley
stated on September 16, 2010 a campaign video
"An organized crime syndicate was extorting money from his (Tom Ganley’s) business, threatening his family, but he fought back and won the FBI's highest civilian award"
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By Tom Feran • September 30, 2010
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on August 26, 2010 an interview
Says a highway was closed in El Paso because of bullets flying across the border.
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By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • September 1, 2010
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on July 13, 2010 a debate
Providence has "the lowest crime rate in three decades."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 19, 2010
Al Hunt
Al Hunt
stated on July 4, 2010 an appearance on ABC's "This Week."
"Crime is down in Arizona."
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By Alex Holt • July 7, 2010
Karen Sage
Karen Sage
stated on April 3, 2010 a mailer
Says that under a new program jail "time for non-violent, mentally ill offenders has been reduced by 50 percent."
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By W. Gardner Selby • April 10, 2010
Jeff Kottkamp
Jeff Kottkamp
stated on February 28, 2010 an op-ed published in Florida newspapers
"Nearly all of the top 50 prescribers of oxycodone in the United States are in Florida."
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By Aaron Sharockman • March 9, 2010
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on March 2, 2010 the State of the State address
"We are now seeing a decrease in violent crime."
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By Amy Sherman • March 3, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 16, 2010 an interview on "Face the Nation"
"There have been three people tried and convicted by the last administration in military courts. Two are walking the street right now."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 16, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on December 28, 2009 the biography on his campaign Web site
During his tenure as mayor, he "saw Houston’s crime rates drop to the lowest levels in more than 25 years."
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By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 13, 2010
Public Citizen
Public Citizen
stated on July 10, 2009 an email to supporters
A loophole "still exists which allows members of Congress and high-powered executive branch appointees to exploit 'insider' knowledge of the financial industry in order to turn personal profit."
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By Catharine Richert • August 6, 2009
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on December 19, 2007 an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe.
Romney refused to pardon "a decorated soldier" returning from Iraq who had been charged with a crime involving a BB gun when he was 13.
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By Bill Adair • December 28, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 17, 2007 a TV ad airing in Iowa.
Huckabee "granted 1,033 pardons and commutations . . . more clemencies than the previous three governors combined."
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By Bill Adair • December 28, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 25, 2007 an interview
"The truth of the matter is that during my administration, the FBI's crime statistics show that violent crime was reduced in Massachusetts by 7 percent."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 26, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on May 31, 2007 New York, N.Y.
"Fifty-six percent decline in overall crime. A 73 percent decline in motor-vehicle theft. A 67 percent decline in robbery. A 66 percent decline in murder. This is way beyond what happened in the nation during this period of time.
True
October 26, 2007
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