“Arizona was safe” when she moved to the state in 1994, but has become “unsafe.”
Kari Lake
Arizona Senate candidate (R). a Senate debate. Claim dated 9 Oct 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
In Arizona, both violent crime generally and murder specifically have declined by more than 40% since 1994.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kari Lake (Arizona Senate candidate (R)) made this claim around 9 October 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 October 2024, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Kari Lake has 9 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 7 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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