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Crime & justice fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about crime & justice. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

6,857 published reviews in this topic

PolitiFactCrime & justice

News interview proves that the Buffalo, New York supermarket shooting was staged.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

FactCheck.orgCrime & justice

Two academic studies found police officers are as or less likely to shoot Black suspects, showing, “There is no systemic racism in policing. It doesn’t exist.”

Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts

PolitiFactCrime & justice

The National Parks Service posted about children who have been freed from human traffickers.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

FactCheck.orgCrime & justice

"Here, you have a 17-year-old boy [Kyle Rittenhouse] who was driven by his mother across state lines with an automatic weapon — frankly, she should have been detained for child endangerment."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactCrime & justice

On Sept. 5, 1993, "Vince Foster went to Fort Marcy Park and shot himself 3 times in the back of the head to avoid testifying against Hillary Clinton."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactCrime & justice

Says Martin Luther King Jr. "was killed (smothered) in the hospital" and "the US government was found guilty in a court of law of conspiring to kill him."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactCrime & justice

Kyle Rittenhouse was an “armed person” crossing state lines when he came to Kenosha protests in 2020.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactCrime & justice

“Disneyland estates have been used for MK-ULTRA mind control, human trafficking, occult rituals, and parading sexual deviants.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgCrime & justice

Jacob Chansley's release from prison was due to videos shown by Fox News' Tucker Carlson.

Publisher’s rating: False

Washington PostCrime & justice

“When we passed the assault weapons ban, mass shootings went down. When the law expired, mass shootings tripled.”

Publisher’s rating: Not the whole story

PolitiFactCrime & justice

Ninety pounds of cocaine was found on a boat owned by Mitch McConnell's family and that they are “financing his Senate campaigns with their cocaine drug profits.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

FactCheck.orgCrime & justice

"PEDOPHILIA is now LEGAL in California!"

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactCrime & justice

Capitol Police officers “helped” QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley and “acted as his tour guides.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactCrime & justice

Says white vans with external locks are “utilized for sex trafficking.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactCrime & justice

Second Boeing Whistleblower Killed In 2 Months!

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactCrime & justice

The Clintons and Bushes were “involved in orchestrating the assassination of JFK Jr.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

Donald TrumpCrime & justice

"The homicide rate in Baltimore is significantly higher than El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala. ... I believe it’s higher than Afghanistan."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

Washington PostCrime & justice

“Kamala Harris helped violent rioters in Minnesota get out of jail to do more damage.”

Publisher’s rating: Needs context

FactCheck.orgCrime & justice

People posing as “officials” from the “Department of Home Affairs” are going door-to-door to confirm “that everyone has a valid ID” for the 2020 census.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgCrime & justice

"I brought crime down 65%" as mayor of New York City. "And right now, murder is up 58% under the ‘regressive’ Democrat mayor."

Publisher’s rating: Misleading