Crime & justice fact checks

A serial killer is on the loose in Virginia.

Publisher’s rating: False

Suggests the alleged Kenosha shooter’s father is a deputy in the Kenosha sheriff’s department.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

Imágenes muestran a la subdirectora del FBI Janeen DiGuiseppi sentada detrás del expresidente Donald Trump durante su intento de asesinato.

Publisher’s rating: False

Says police are warning that a new technique by gangs is to throw eggs at your windshield and to not "operate the wiper" because it will "block your vision up to 92.5%," forcing you to stop the car and become a victim.

Publisher’s rating: False

A Secret Service agent named Jonathan Willis said he “had the assassin in his sights for 3 minutes, but he was told not to engage by the head of the (Secret Service) unit.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Police defunding is to blame for “skyrocketing murder rates” in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Portland, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

There were 6,154 human trafficking arrests under President Trump in 2019 -- a 200% increase from President Obama's last year in office.

Publisher’s rating: False

Says the suspected Boulder mass shooter is a Muslim "who entered illegally from Mexico and purchased the firearm from a guy that sells stolen guns."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

Says Amber Alerts are issued for white kids "but not Black kids in Milwaukee."

Publisher’s rating: False

Says Robert Mueller "didn’t follow the special counsel regulations. It clearly says write a confidential report about decisions reached. Nowhere in here does it say write a report about decisions that were not reached."

Publisher’s rating: False

Police are 20.8 times more likely to kill than be killed by a criminal.

Publisher’s rating: True

Photo shows former President Donald Trump’s probation officer.

Publisher’s rating: False

“When Byron Donalds wanted a state job, he lied, claiming he wasn’t a felon despite convictions for drugs and felony theft.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., is facing charges after “lying” to Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

Publisher’s rating: False

The Heinous Crimes Court in the Philippines issued a warrant for Bill Gates’ arrest for premeditated murder linked to vaccine roll out.

Publisher’s rating: False

The Michigan State University shooter is a 21-year-old man named Lynn Dee Walker.

Publisher’s rating: False

Research from related reporting identifies the event as the February 2023 Michigan State University shooting: the campus-shooting list says the incident left three people dead and that a 43-year-old gunman fired inside an academic building and the student union. That reported age conflicts with the claim that the shooter was 21. The supplied excerpt does not name the gunman, so it does not independently establish whether the name Lynn Dee Walker is correct.

Minnesota incarcerates “about a third of what Wisconsin does.”

Publisher’s rating: True