“Look, when we had community policing initially in the late ’90s, violent crimes dropped significantly, significantly. And the reason it did is because we had significant number of police.”
Joe Biden
President of the United States. CNN town hall. Claim dated 21 Oct 2021.
FactCheck.org rated thisMany Reasons for Drop
What FactCheck.org found
Experts have said more police did help, but there were many potential reasons.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 21 October 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 October 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “Many Reasons for Drop”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/10/22/remarks-by-president…
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