Crime
Decades old gun deaths poster goes viral again
A viral poster about deaths from handguns is from 1979. Read
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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.
Crime
Full Fact captures 120 escaped prisoners
Sometimes, even ordinarily reliable sources get things wrong. Normally, Full Fact would consider figures provided by a Minister in response to a Parliamentary Question to be a reliable source. So … Read
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Immigration
Are foreign nationals leading a surge in crime?
We looked at some of the key claims reported about foreign nationals and crime. Read
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Crime
How many forced marriages take place in the UK each year?
After a court found that Shafilea Ahmed was killed by her parents after objecting to a forced marriage, the Times claimed that the number of these weddings in the UK had reached 10,000 a year. But has it really? Read
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Crime
Stop and search: are black people over-represented?
Readers of the Guardian, Daily Mail and Telegraph this morning were presented with more headlines implying police bias when using stop and search powers. The Guardian and the Mail, however, … Read
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Crime
Have murders in London increased in the last year?
Following the publication of Ken Livingstone's crime manifesto, critics have attacked his recent claim that murders in London have increased by eight per cent in the past year. Are they justified in their attacks? Read
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Policing Boris Johnson's youth crime stats
In the wake of a number of high-profile teen stabbings, the Mayor of London faced some tough questions on his crime policy at yesterday's Mayor's Question Time. But does his claim that youth crime in the capital is falling check out? Read
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