PANTS ON FIRE..."Violent crime rates increased in all but 2 WI cities between 2008 and 2017"

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/20/joe-sanfelippo/sanfelippo-flops-claim-violent-crime/
#REPUBLICAN Joe Sanfelippo
stated on February 13, 2020 the GOP weekly radio address:
“Violent crime rates increased in all but two Wisconsin cities between 2008 and 2017.”
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By Eric Litke • February 20, 2020




Our ruling

Arguing for a series of tough-on-crime bills, Sanfelippo said in a statewide radio address that violent crime "increased in all but two Wisconsin cities between 2008 and 2017."

Almost every word of that is wrong.

Any comparison should have factored in the 2018 data, which was available at the time. The comparisons shouldn’t include the many places where reporting practices changed. And even the use of the word cities is wrong since the dataset includes towns and villages.

Most importantly, Sanfelipo misstated the claim he was trying to repeat. In actuality, there are more than 100 Wisconsin municipalities where the crime rate did not rise — more than half the communities included in the best available FBI data.

That makes Sanfelippo’s claim not only false, but ridiculous. We rate this Pants on Fire.