What did Donald Trump claim about crime on 5 Feb 2019?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
The border city of El Paso, Texas, used to have extremely high rates of violent crime, one of the highest in the entire country, and considered one of our Nation's most dangerous cities.
Far from one of the highest. In 2008 El Paso's violent crime rate was about 461 per 100,000, near the national 454.5 and under half the 956.4 average for similar-size cities.
FBI data for 2008 show the El Paso Police Department reported 2,825 violent crimes for a population of 612,374, a rate of about 461 per 100,000 (FBI, Crime in the United States 2008, Table 8). The national violent crime rate that year was 454.5 per 100,000 (Table 1), and cities of 500,000 to 999,999 people averaged 956.4 (Table 16). In 2007, El Paso's 2,574 violent crimes for 616,029 people, about 418 per 100,000, were below the national rate of 466.9.
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- State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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