“Crime is escalating to a level we haven’t seen in decades as a direct result of Democrats’ defund the police movement and Biden-Harris open-border policies.”
What PolitiFact found
Homicides are up, but they began rising before Democrats were in power, and factors such as disruptions brought by the pandemic likely played a large role.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Republican National Committee (National organization for the Republican Party) made this claim around 29 June 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 July 2021, 10 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Republican National Committee has 11 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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