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Crime & justice fact checks
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FactCheck.orgCrime & justice
Fox News showed a chyron that read: “SHOOTER DESCRIBED AS ‘MOSTLY WHITE ASIAN MALE.'”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactCrime & justice
“Cuomo ended cash bail ... and now the crime rate has gone through the roof.”
Publisher’s rating: False
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Washington PostCrime & justice
"The Department of Justice just released brand new Crime Data showing I was absolutely and completely right at the Debate. In fact, the Data is even worse than we could have ever imagined. Compared to 2020, Violent Crime is up nearly 40 percent."
Publisher’s rating: Cherry-picked data
PolitiFactCrime & justice
The indictment of Donald Trump "is an attack … on his First Amendment rights."
Publisher’s rating: Unlikely to fly in court
Washington PostCrime & justice
"Tony Bryant testified under oath...The two men confessed repeatedly to Bryant and a third man that they had committed the crime.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Washington PostCrime & justice
“Hunter Biden’s committed serious crimes, as you mentioned, 150 suspicious activity reports. Those are the most severe bank violations. This is when the bank notifies the federal government that we’re pretty confident our client has committed a crime."
Publisher’s rating: Three Pinocchios
PolitiFactCrime & justice
“I’m not allowed to testify” because of a gag order.
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgCrime & justice
Days after the 2016 deadly shooting of Dallas police officers, "Mandela Barnes ... rationalized violence against American police officers.”
Publisher’s rating: He Condemned Attack
Washington PostCrime & justice
“Malinowski tried to make it easier for predators to hide in the shadows. Malinowski worked as the top lobbyist for a radical group that strongly opposed the national sex offender registry. Law enforcement praised the national sex offender registry that Tom Malinowski led an effort to stop.”
Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios
PolitiFactCrime & justice
The shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde County, Texas, was a false flag.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactCrime & justice
Says a teenage Pete Buttigieg was arrested in the late 1990s for killing dogs.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactCrime & justice
"More than half of death row prisoners are people of color."
Publisher’s rating: True
PolitiFactCrime & justice
Video shows police removing disabled protesters from the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactCrime & justice
“Jeffrey Epstein found living in New Mexico!”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactCrime & justice
Photo of person holding sign shows the shooter who killed six people at a Nashville, Tennessee, school.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactCrime & justice
On Gov. Tony “Evers’ watch…the efficiency of the state crime lab has plummeted.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False