“They eliminated the funding for community policing.”
Joe Biden
Democratic presidential nominee. an ABC town hall. Claim dated 16 Oct 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
While the community policing program’s funding is lower than it was in the 1990s, it was never brought down to zero and remains in the neighborhood of $200 million a year.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 16 October 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 October 2020. Its rating was “False”.
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.
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