Lie April 12, 2019 · Speech · Crime

“You know, I don't know if you saw the crime stats, but the statistics are that crime is way down in our country over the last year. Way, way down. And so that's despite all of the problems we have at the border.”

Said
April 12, 2019
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Crime
Repeated
13 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 9912)

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  1. Apr 17, 2019 · Remarks“Crime is down very substantially from even a year ago.”
  2. Apr 26, 2019 · Speech“Violent crime is way down, murders in America's largest cities dropped by six percent between 2017 and 2018.”
  3. Mar 13, 2019 · Remarks“I think much of the drugs -- the big loads of drugs, and certainly the human traffickers, go not through the ports of entry; they go through the open areas where they don't have walls.”
  4. Mar 6, 2019 · Remarks“One of our best years ever [on crime] was last year. And we're down 6 percent from last year, so that's very important.”
  5. Mar 4, 2019 · Remarks“Murders in America’s largest cities dropped by 7 percent between 2016 and 2017.”
  6. Mar 4, 2019 · Remarks“In the two years before my inauguration, violent crime was up substantially -- very substantially -- and murders had increased by more than 20 percent.”