“The Bipartisan Safer in Communities Act led to “a 12% reduction in urban homicides in this country.”
What PolitiFact found
Data shows urban homicides across the U.S. decreased about 12% in 2023 compared with a year earlier. But that data ignores that this decline came after violent crime spiked during the COVID pandemic
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Chris Murphy (United States Senator) made this claim around 11 February 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 February 2024, 4 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Chris Murphy has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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