“Homicides in Atlanta is up 47%" and “rape is up over 200% since Raphael Warnock got in office.”
What FactCheck.org found
Atlanta Police Department crime data show that, as of Sept. 3, homicides were up about 16% and rapes were up about 22% this year when compared with roughly the same period in 2020, the year before Warnock took office.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Herschel Walker (Republican Senate candidate) made this claim around 11 September 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 September 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Herschel Walker has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20220911_140000_Sunday_Morning_Futures_With_Maria_Ba…
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