PeakMetrics / Fact Checks
Crime & justice fact checks
Explore claims publishers have checked about crime & justice. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.
Search fact checks
Search by text or image6,831 published reviews in this topic
川口市の刑法犯で検挙された7割が外国人?
Publisher’s rating: 誤り
The review says the claim misinterprets figures for foreign nationals apprehended in Kawaguchi City in 2024: Chinese, Turkish, and Vietnamese nationals together made up 75.8% of foreign nationals apprehended, not 70% of all people apprehended for criminal offenses. The city official cited in the review described the 178-person total as the number of foreign nationals apprehended for criminal offenses.
ویدیوی تعقیب و گریز و دستگیری عوامل موساد در بزرگراه تهران قم
Publisher’s rating: نادرست
image, which claims to show Margaret Nduta, the Kenyan sentenced to death in Vietnam, back in Kenya
Publisher’s rating: Altered
ఝార్ఖండ్లో ఒక ముస్లిం ఆటో డ్రైవర్ పోలీసు అధికారిపై దాడి చేస్తున్న దృశ్యాలు
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The video shows Canadian police arresting Khalistani protesters shortly before Prime Minister Modi arrived at the G7 Summit.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The review identifies the footage as showing a 22 September 2024 arrest in Nassau County, New York, not an arrest in Canada before the 2025 G7 Summit. It says protests took place in Calgary on 16 June 2025, but the review found no credible reports or official statements confirming arrests connected to them.
Image shows accused shooter Vance Boelter wearing a “Resist” shirt.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire!
Taifa Leo cover, dated 3 June 2025 and reporting on Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi’s sexual assault
Publisher’s rating: Altered
An image claiming to issue a security alert about a group of people pretending to be Home Affairs officials robbing homes
Publisher’s rating: Missing Context
The video shows a Bangladeshi flag seller being beaten and arrested in West Bengal for selling flags.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
California has lower homicide rates than Alabama, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
cover of The Standard newspaper, dated 3 June 2025, bearing the headline “The Mafia Cop”
Publisher’s rating: Altered
Claim: "OVERNIGHT IN LA: Illegal Aliens light themselves on FIRE after dousing Jeep with gasoline and lighting it." This is claimed in a post on X with nearly 2.8 million views. Along with the claim, a video is shared showing a group of young people pouring gasoline on a Jeep before it explodes in flames. The same footage has been widely shared across platforms including YouTube and Instagram, all claiming it shows part of the current unrest in Los Angeles.
Publisher’s rating: DW Fact check: False. The video is not related to the current protests. It first appeared online in March 2024 and shows a street takeover in Los Angeles' Hyde Park neighborhood, unrelated to immigration raids or migrant protests. A visible watermark in several versions of the clip links it to an Instagram account that regularly posts viral videos of car crashes, explosions and street racing scenes. The video was published on that account on March 9, 2024. A reverse image search leads to a Daily Mail article from March 2024 featuring screenshots from the same video and providing details of the street takeover, referring to when a group of people meet to showcase their cars and driving abilities. Searching keywords related to the Hyde Park incident in Los Angeles also yields additional reports and images from local outlets, confirming the video's original context.