Posted September 27, 2016 1:19 pm by Comments

By Matt Vespa

Monday Night Rumble: Trump and Clinton faced off on the debate stage at Hofstra University.
Monday Night Rumble: Trump and Clinton faced off on the debate stage at Hofstra University.

#CNNRealityCheck: Trump said ”murders are up” in NYC. FALSE. They’re down 4.3% from this time last year, per NYPD https://t.co/Kya0CdnMMu

— CNN (@CNN) September 27, 2016

New York murders in 2014: 328. New York murders in 2015: 352. So Trump wins that fact check, too.

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 27, 2016

Clinton is wrong about murders in NYC dropping. She probably didn’t see the FBI’s crime report that was released today.

— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) September 27, 2016

It’s the battle of the fact checkers. Who is right about crime in New York City? It became a point of contention between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton last night concerning the constitutionality of stop and frisk, which the Republican nominee said had an impact in reducing crime in the city when things were out of control for about a quarter century, most notably the insane amount of homicides that occurred the early 1990s. Clinton responded by saying that stop and frisk is no more in the city under Bill de Blasio and that crime, including murders, have …Read the Rest

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