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Statements about Crime
Peter Roskam

Peter Roskam

Mostly True

At the high end of estimates, he's right

"Worldwide credit card transactions, the credit card fraud rate is 0.04 percent, compared to almost 8 percent, 9 percent, 10 percent of Medicare fraud."

Harold Metts

Harold Metts

Mostly True

Many measures, each flawed

"Rhode Island has a [inmate] recidivism rate of over 60 percent."

Peter Nightingale

Peter Nightingale

Mostly True

Small percentage of U.K. police are armed

"The UK has an unarmed police force and a firearm fatality rate that is 40 times lower per capita than in the U.S."

Veronica Escobar

Veronica Escobar

Half-True

Caution advised

Says El Paso is the "safest city of our size in the nation."

Tavern League of Wisconsin

Tavern League of Wisconsin

Mostly True

If you're a woman who weighs about a hundred, yes

A 0.05 standard for drunken driving means having a glass of wine at dinner could make a person drunk.

John DePetro

John DePetro

Pants on Fire!

Try 74 miles

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is buried "not far" from President Kennedy’s grave.

Joee Lindbeck

Joee Lindbeck

Half-True

Not just for schools

"Two years ago Providence alone spent $50,000 a year notifying the school department" about residents in the state's sex offender registry.

Peter Palumbo

Peter Palumbo

False

Eight times too high

In Cranston, it costs $5,000 to $6,000 to send out community notifications on just one Level 3 sex offender.

Ed Doyle

Ed Doyle

Mostly False

Zombie guns for everyone!

Proposed gun control legislation "will outlaw practically every firearm, make you pay $100 per firearm, put you into a police database" and make it "nearly impossible" to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

Ed FitzGerald

Ed FitzGerald

False

Label doesn't fit

"Ohioans want an end to pay-to-play politics."

Jack Ohman

Jack Ohman

False

State official visited 12 days before explosion

Says the fertilizer plant that exploded in West, Texas,"had not been inspected by the state of Texas since 2006."

Kirsten Gillibrand

Kirsten Gillibrand

Mostly True

Survey says she's right

"One in five" women in the military "are receiving unwanted sexual contact," as are "3.3 percent of men."

Linda Finn

Linda Finn

Half-True

Police can seize handguns, not rifles

Right now, if Rhode Island police come across a young person with a gun, "they really don't legally have the right to take it away from them."

Ohio Public Defender's Office

Ohio Public Defender's Office

Mostly True

Research bears it out

"The sex-offender registry has been around for a long time, and the research that's out there says that it has no positive impact on the public safety."

John Duncan

John Duncan

Mostly False

The percentage is high, but not that high

"Well over 90 percent of felony cases, all over the nation, are committed by defendants who grew up in father-absent households."

Arizona Citizens Defense League

Arizona Citizens Defense League

Half-True

A federal felony? It depends

Says a gun bill before the Senate would make it a federal felony to "leave town for more than seven days, and leave someone else at home with your firearms."

American Bird Conservancy

American Bird Conservancy

Half-True

This may not result in the classic case of hoarding

A proposed bill in the Florida Legislature "would authorize the public hoarding of cats by feral cat activists."

Ban the Box RI

Ban the Box RI

True

It’s now up to 31 percent

"In Rhode Island, 28 percent of adults released from state prisons are re-incarcerated within a year."

Facebook posts

Facebook posts

Half-True

Local gun culture might be one key

"Harvard Study Finds States With Most Gun Laws Have Fewest Gun Deaths."

Rahm Emanuel

Rahm Emanuel

True

Sometimes more than the two combined

Says in Chicago, "we take more guns off the streets than New York or L.A."

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