Statements about Crime

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False

More like 100

Omar

"Every day on average 500 people die from gun violence."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, June 12th, 2019

Half-True

Isn't the whole story

Biden

The 1994 crime bill "did not generate mass incarceration."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, May 30th, 2019

Mostly True

Trump claimed vindication Mueller didn't offer

Pocan

Says Donald Trump's claim that "there was insufficient evidence and therefore, in our country, a person is innocent" directly contradicts Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s statement.

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, May 30th, 2019

Full Flop

New stance is full reversal from past

Harris

On the need for independent investigations of police shootings

— PolitiFact California on Thursday, May 23rd, 2019

Half-True

It works, some of the time

"When you pull up to the gas pump to fill up your car, get your cell phone and search for Bluetooth devices. If a sequence of letters and numbers show up don’t pay at the pump. One of the pumps has a credit card skimmer inside of it. All of these skimmers run on bluetooth."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Friday, May 17th, 2019