Crime
Has the legal aid budget 'grown and grown and grown'?
Full Fact Live: factchecking in brief from Full Fact and elsewhere Read
Analysis
Crime
It's hard to measure crime, which can make news stories seem more worrying than they really are. We look past the headlines to explain the full picture.
Health
The number of girls at risk of FGM is hard to estimate
One estimate of the number of girls in England and Wales who are at risk of female genital mutilation is 24,000. But there are problems with this number, and a scarcity of other sources on the topic. Read
Analysis
Crime
Stop and search: the racial imbalance
Spotlight on police stop and search, with context, key facts and main sources of information. Including: the laws governing stop and search, and racial imbalance. Read
Analysis
Crime
800% increases aren't always as big as they look
Full Fact Live: factchecking in brief from Full Fact and elsewhere. Read
Analysis
Crime
Is the illegal trade in wildlife the fourth largest in the world?
How valuable is illegal wildlife trading compared to drugs and human trafficking? Prince William says it ranks highly, but how far behind the leaders is it? Read
Analysis
Crime
Are unreliable police crime statistics concealing rising crime?
Crime is falling. It's falling under this government and it fell under the last government. Read
Analysis
Crime
How unusual are rape data "inconsistencies"?
The reputation of crime statistics has taken a few knocks of late, after a committee of MPs heard evidence that figures were often deliberately manipulated to under-report certain crimes. Rape … Read
Analysis
Health
Can we trust police and hospitals figures?
OPINION: Police crime statistics and figures for hospital waiting times can't be relied upon, we've learned in the past two weeks. Read
Analysis
Crime
Does the Metropolitan Police reflect London's ethnic diversity?
With tensions still running high after the police shooting of Mark Duggan was ruled lawful by an inquest jury last week, is the local MP's claim about the proportion of ethnic minority officers serving in the Metropolitan Police accurate? Read
Analysis
Crime
Legal aid: how many barristers are earning six figure sums at the public's expense?
The government is set to clash with the Criminal Bar Association next week over plans to reform legal aid. How accurate are newspaper reports about the sums earned by barristers through publicly-funded schemes? Read
Analysis