While fact-checkers are having a field day with Donald Trump’s public statements, they would be wise to update their data on crime.
Most recently, the Pulitzer-prize winning fact-checker Politifact analyzed Trump’s statements on rising crime and found him to be wrong, writing that crime has been falling for decades.
Politifact rated Trump’s June 7, 2016, claim that “crime is rising” to be “Pants on Fire” – their lowest rating.
But there is a big problem with their conclusion: Politifact just stopped looking at data in 2014.
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