“During his tenure as mayor of New York City, “street homelessness decreased by 28 percent.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
Michael Bloomberg
Democratic presidential candidate. 12 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2019 to 2020. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.
“I've been well on the record against redlining since I worked on Wall Street.”
PolitiFact rated this: Needs more context
“Says “black babies die at rates twice as high as white babies because of a lack of access to affordable health care.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“Video shows Democratic presidential candidates speechless for 20 seconds when discussing whether any of them started a business.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“When we discovered, I discovered, that we were doing many, many, too many stop and frisks, we cut 95% of it out.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“I "inherited the police practice of stop-and-frisk" and "by the time I left office, I cut it back by 95 percent.”
The New York Times rated this: This is misleading.
“Campaign letter says North Carolina's Democratic primary is open to "all registered voters, regardless of registration.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“2,900 children die from gun violence every year.”
PolitiFact rated this: Depends how you count
“Mayor Bloomberg helped lower the number of uninsured by 40 percent, covering 700,000 more New Yorkers”
PolitiFact rated this: True
“We cut New York City’s carbon footprint twice as much as the rest of the country.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“No other city in America did what (New York) did. We reduced murders by 50%, reduced police shootings to historic lows, reduced the number of people incarcerated by nearly 40%.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“If you go back, you can see Wayne LaPierre, who runs the NRA, testifying in front of Congress in favor of background checks 15 or 20 years ago.”
PolitiFact rated this: True