“Violent crime is near a record 50-year low.”
What PolitiFact found
The FBI’s violent crime rate for 2022, the last year officially available, was 370 violent crimes per 100,000 population. Since 1972, only two years have had a lower violent crime rate: 2014 and 2019.
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In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 15 May 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 May 2024, 13 days later. Its rating was “True”.
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/2024/05/15/remarks-by-president…
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