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 Oct 2019
Voter ID scheme: far more turned away than convicted of electoral fraud
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9th Oct 2019
More prisoners to be released two thirds of the way through sentence than halfway
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4th Oct 2019
Over 200,000 elderly people experienced domestic abuse in 2017/18
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18th Sep 2019
How long do child killers serve in prison?
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5th Sep 2019
Does stop and search work?
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30th Aug 2019
Muslim knife attacker claim is unfounded and implausible
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29th Aug 2019
Do Notting Hill Carnival and Glastonbury have similar crime rates?
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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?