“Before 2020, “crime had been falling, every year, year after year, in the city of Buffalo.”
What PolitiFact found
Occurrences of all seven major crimes fell by 44 percent between 2006 and 2019. There was a year-over-year decrease every year, except twice.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Byron Brown (Mayor of Buffalo) made this claim around 23 August 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 September 2021, 19 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Byron Brown has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- audacy.comhttps://www.audacy.com/wben/news/local/wben-interviews-india-walton-byron-brown-on-public…
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