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Newsom digs southern states over homicides. Is he right? (www.politifact.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/usa@midwest.social

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Our ruling

Newsom said California has lower homicide rates than Alabama, Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Data for 2022 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which criminologists consider a reliable source, show that California has a lower homicide rate than Alabama, Arkansas and Oklahoma, and roughly in the proportions that Newsom said.

Data from 2023 collected by the FBI generally mirrors the CDC data.

Looking at violent crime more broadly — a category that includes rape, aggravated assault and robbery in addition to homicide — California fares less well, notching rates higher than either Oklahoma and Alabama.

The statement is accurate but needs additional information, so we rate the statement Mostly True.

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[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Snopes has gone to hell, doing whatever it can to give the lying pieces of shit on the right any semblance of a talking point.

The quote was about homicides, but snopes decided, on it's own, to look at a bunch of other crimes, and using that tangent to degrade their rating of the quote.

They keep making the logical leaps to bolster right wing lies to any degree they can. It's pathetic

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

Then it's a good thing the link wasn't to Snopes