Jeff Sessions – In Milwaukee, murders are coming down from a peak, they're not up 57%, despite Jeff Sessions' claim

The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False | In Milwaukee, murders are coming down from a peak, they’re not up 57%, despite Jeff Sessions’ claim

The attorney general of the United States came to Milwaukee and said murder in the city "is up an astonishing 57 percent." His number wasn’t entirely wrong. It reflects a spike in murders that occurred after 2014. But after the spike, the murders leveled off, and have begun to drop. The claim Jeff Sessions, President Donald Trump’s attorney general, came to Milwaukee on Dec. 18, 2017, to announce he was adding two more federal prosecutors to fight violent crime in the city. The former GOP U.S. senator from Alabama used statistics to underscore the need, saying: And …

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