Crime
Crime is difficult to measure and that makes it easy to be alarmed by newspaper reports that might not tell the whole story. We look behind the headline figures and put them in context
Met Police has not launched an investigation into the Covid-19 vaccine programme
Posts on Facebook falsely claim that the Metropolitan Police is investigating the Covid-19 vaccine programme.
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Priti Patel’s tweet on police funding doesn’t account for inflation
A graph claiming to show a large increase in police funding fails to take into account inflation.
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Reports Emma Tustin was hospitalised after inmates force fed her salt are not true
A Facebook post falsely claims Emma Tustin, who killed Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, has been hospitalised after being forced to eat 79 packets of salt.
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Hunt for child who told man ‘you’re not my dad’ was false alarm
Police have called off the search—but two newspapers only updated their websites to reflect this after Full Fact contacted them.
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Police have not said a West Midlands teen was "murdered" with a Covid-19 vaccine
A video on Facebook wrongly claims police have “agreed” that a teenager was killed with a Covid-19 vaccine
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What do we know so far about reports of ‘spiking’ with needles?
Police across the UK are investigating more than 50 reports of incidents involving some form of injection.
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About 3.6% of men have recently experienced domestic abuse
It is not around 7%, as the Safeguarding Minister claimed. This is the figure for women.
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Emergency services can’t use the numbers on street lamps to find you
A social media post wrongly suggests that numbering on street lamps will let emergency services know exactly where you are.
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No evidence New South Wales Premier resigned over bribes from Pfizer or AstraZeneca
While Australian politician Gladys Berejiklian has resigned recently it has nothing to do with vaccinations.
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Most police have not been found guilty of sexual misconduct
This claim comes from confusion over another statistic, about the proportion of those in one force found to have committed sexual misconduct who kept their jobs.
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