“I brought crime down 65%" as mayor of New York City. "And right now, murder is up 58% under the ‘regressive’ Democrat mayor.”
What FactCheck.org found
Giuliani mixes two different crime stats. And, in fact, major crimes are down under de Blasio and the annual number of murders under de Blasio has been about half as high as it was in Giuliani’s best year.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rudy Giuliani (Former New York City Mayor) made this claim around 1 July 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 July 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
Rudy Giuliani has 12 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 7 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- c-span.orghttps://www.c-span.org/video/?c4890672/user-clip-rudy-giuliani-comments-reporters-white-h…
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