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36 checks for “Joe Biden”

Checked by PolitiFact28 May 2024United States Crime and security

Joe Biden, president

“Violent crime is near a record 50-year low.”

PolitiFact rated this: True

PolitiFact says: The FBI’s violent crime rate for 2022, the last year officially available, was 370 violent crimes per 100,000 population. Since 1972, only two years have had a lower violent crime rate: 2014 and 2019.

Checked by FactCheck.org30 Apr 2024United States Crime and security

Joe Biden, President

“Said his mother recalled that as a teenager, he "got arrested standing on the porch with a Black family" when protesters opposed desegregation of a nearby Delaware neighborhood. "And I said, 'Yeah, Mom, I remember that.”

FactCheck.org rated this: No Evidence

FactCheck.org says: There is no evidence Biden was ever arrested, though news stories at the time do corroborate that there were incidents near Biden’s home in Delaware in which white neighbors protested a Black family moving in.

Checked by PolitiFact30 Apr 2024United States Crime and security

Joe Biden, president

“Says he “got arrested” while protesting in favor of desegregation.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: Since 2018, Joe Biden has repeatedly told a story about being arrested during a desegregation protest in Delaware during the Civil Rights era. We found no evidence to back it up.

Checked by PolitiFact12 Apr 2024United States Crime and security

Social media posts

“Alina Habba said New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron took a “$10 million bribe from Joe Biden’s shell companies to convict Donald Trump.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: A spokesperson for Alina Habba, one of former President Donald Trump’s attorneys, told PolitiFact that this claim is false and Habba doesn’t have a Telegram account.

Checked by PolitiFact3 Apr 2024United States Crime and security

Nancy Mace, U.S. Representative, R-S.C.

“Since Joe Biden took office, crime has skyrocketed across our country.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False

PolitiFact says: Overall violent crime and homicides are down during Joe Biden’s presidency. Some types of property crime are also down, though motor vehicle theft notably rose.

Checked by FactCheck.org13 Jan 2024United States Crime and security

Donald Trump, Former U.S. president

“My legal issues, every one of them, every one, civil, and the criminal ones, are all set up by Joe Biden.”

FactCheck.org rated this: No Evidence

FactCheck.org says: Biden has no control over state-level prosecutors who have brought cases against Trump in Manhattan and Georgia. There's no evidence Biden is involved in Trump's pending federal cases.

Checked by PolitiFact9 Aug 2023United States Crime and security

Social media posts

“FBI director Wray confirms Joe Biden is under criminal investigation for Ukrainian bribes by the U.S. attorney in Delaware then tries to backpedal.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: FBI Director Christopher Wray referred a legislator to the U.S attorney’s office in Delaware when asked whether President Joe Biden had received payments from Ukraine. He didn't say the president was being investigated.

Checked by PolitiFact15 Mar 2023United States Crime and security

Joe Biden, President

“More cops are killed responding to domestic violence calls than anything else.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: Domestic violence calls can be deadly for police, but FBI data does not show that more police officers are killed responding to those calls than any other calls.

Checked by FactCheck.org25 Oct 2022United States Crime and security

Joe Biden, President of the United States

“I’m keeping my promise that no one should be in jail merely for using or possessing marijuana.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Exaggerates

FactCheck.org says: The pardon does not apply to people who violated state or local law, and an administration official told reporters that "there are no individuals currently in federal prison solely for simple possession of marijuana."

Checked by PolitiFact22 Jul 2022United States Crime and security

Social media posts

“A Texas farmer was “arrested for using illegal immigrants for free labor by pretending to be Joe Biden.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

Checked by PolitiFact14 Jan 2022United States Crime and security

Joe Biden, president

“As a youth, “I got arrested” protesting for civil rights.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: Biden may have participated in one of two flare-ups over racial discrimination in housing near his home in Delaware when he was a teenager. However, there is no evidence that Biden was actually arrested.

Checked by Washington Post13 Jan 2022United States Crime and security

Joe Biden, President

“I did not walk in the shoes of generations of students who walked these grounds. But I walked other grounds. Because I’m so damn old, I was there as well. You think I’m kidding, man. It seems like yesterday the first time I got arrested.”

Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios

Washington Post says: In Atlanta, the president referenced "the first time I got arrested.” But his story does not add up.

Checked by FactCheck.org22 Oct 2021United States Crime and security

Joe Biden, President of the United States

“Look, when we had community policing initially in the late ’90s, violent crimes dropped significantly, significantly. And the reason it did is because we had significant number of police.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Many Reasons for Drop

FactCheck.org says: Experts have said more police did help, but there were many potential reasons.

Checked by FactCheck.org23 Oct 2020United States Crime and security

Joe Biden, Democratic presidential nominee

“38,000 prisoners were released from federal prison” during the Obama administration.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading

FactCheck.org says: When measuring from December 31, 2008, to December 31, 2016, the number of prisoners in federal custody declined by about 12,000.

Checked by PolitiFact23 Oct 2020United States Crime and security

Joe Biden, Democratic presidential nominee

“As part of the Obama administration's criminal justice reforms, “38,000 prisoners were released from federal prison.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False

Checked by PolitiFact13 Oct 2020United States Crime and security

Joe Biden, Democratic presidential nominee

“Senate Republicans' move to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in an election year is "not constitutional.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

Checked by Washington Post24 Sep 2020United States Crime and security

Voiceover, Trump campaign

“Joe Biden kneels, and his employees pay bail [for violent protesters]. And Biden doesn’t stand up to the radical leftists who want to eliminate the police.”

Washington Post rated this: False

Washington Post says: Biden does not support defunding police

Checked by The Dispatch Fact Check22 Sep 2020United States Crime and security

Joe Biden

“Donald Trump only asked Joe Biden for his list of Supreme Court picks after Ruth Bader Ginsberg died.”

The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: false

Checked by FactCheck.org21 Sep 2020United States Crime and security

Joe Biden, Democratic presidential nominee

“I think the fastest [Supreme Court] justice ever confirmed was 47 days.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: Since 1975, the shortest time from formal nomination to confirmation was 19 days.

Checked by MediaWise17 Sep 2020United States Crime and security

Sāvion Wright

“Did Joe Biden say that Breonna Taylor should be arrested?”

MediaWise rated this: Not Legit

MediaWise says: Biden was suggesting the officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor be arrested, not Breonna Taylor herself. He did clearly misspeak when responding, but his intention is clear within the context of the question h…