“Police are 20.8 times more likely to kill than be killed by a criminal.”
Chris Larson
State senator. Facebook post. Claim dated 24 Aug 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisTrue
In short
Chris Larson (State senator) made this claim around 24 August 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 August 2020, 4 days later. Its rating was “True”.
Chris Larson has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 4 true.
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