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Crime & justice fact checks

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

6,831 published reviews in this topic

dpaCrime & justice

48,3 Prozent aller Tatverdächtigen hatten in Niedersachsen 2023 eine ausländische Staatsbürgerschaft. 44,4 Prozent der Morde in Rheinland-Pfalz wurden 2023 von Ausländern begangen.

Publisher’s rating: Hier liegen mehrere falsche Berechnungen und falsch interpretierte Zahlen vor. In Niedersachsen beträgt der Anteil der ausländischen Tatverdächtigen nur rund ein Drittel und nicht fast die Hälfte. Die fehlerhafte Angabe wurde zuerst auf einer Website veröffentlicht, dort aber später korrigiert. Auch für Rheinland-Pfalz wurden falsche Zahlen genannt - und zunächst nirgends richtiggestellt.

PA MediaCrime & justice

Rape convictions fell during Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s tenure in charge of the Crown Prosecution Service.

Publisher’s rating: Evaluation: Missing context. According to CPS data, the number of rape convictions, prosecutions, and the proportion of prosecutions ending in convictions were all higher in the year ending March 2014, when Sir Keir left the organisation, than they were in both 2008 – the year he was appointed – and the year before that. Downing Street pointed to data showing convictions falling between the fourth quarter of the year ending March 2011, two years after Sir Keir took charge, and the final quarter of his tenure in 2013, as justification for the Prime Minister’s statement.

Boom LiveCrime & justice

यूपी में क्राइम रेट पर NCRB रिपोर्ट पर जनसत्ता के लोगो के साथ योगी सरकार पर तंज करता कार्टून

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

Boom Live reports that the viral post paired a Jansatta headline and logo with a cartoon mocking the Yogi government, but Jansatta Digital editor Vijay Jha said the cartoon was not published by the news website. The review says NCRB’s 2022 data showed Uttar Pradesh had the highest number of recorded crimes against women, while the cartoon was not part of Jansatta’s article.