Crime
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The Police
11th Sep 2018
Police officer numbers in England and Wales
20th Apr 2018
How many stop and searches are knife crime related?
The state of prisons
6th Aug 2018
Violence and drugs in prison
Prisoner-on-prisoner assaults and attacks on staff are rising.
2nd Aug 2017
The state of prisons in England and Wales
20th Aug 2018
What’s happening to HMP Birmingham?
latest factchecks
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16th Aug 2019
Are assaults on police officers rising?
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16th Aug 2019
How many rapists reoffend?
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26th Jul 2019
Police numbers under Boris Johnson’s time as Mayor
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25th Jul 2019
These claims about radical Muslim preachers and Tommy Robinson are mostly incorrect
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9th Jul 2019
This video of a robbery at knife point did not take place in London
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24th Jun 2019
Stop and search in England and Wales
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18th Jun 2019
Did crime fall while Boris Johnson was Mayor of London?
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13th Jun 2019
Does it cost more to watch TV in hospital than in prison?
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23rd May 2019
There’s no evidence that this man was attacked because he’s in the armed forces
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23rd May 2019
Has cocaine use really doubled in five years?
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5th Apr 2019
Does Poland’s migration policy explain its lack of terror attacks?
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29th Mar 2019
No, water cannon will not be deployed at the pro-Brexit march
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8th Mar 2019
What’s happening to knife crime?
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1st Feb 2019
Violent crime is not at record levels
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25th Jan 2019
The London Underground isn’t as dangerous as New York’s in the 1990s