"Joe Biden wrote the Violence Against Women Act ... the rate of domestic violence went down dramatically."
Barack Obama on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 in Springfield, Ill. >>Details
"Joe Biden brought Republicans and Democrats together to pass the 1994 crime bill, putting 100,000 cops on the streets and starting an eight-year drop in crime across the country."
Barack Obama on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 in >>Details
Huckabee "granted 1,033 pardons and commutations . . . more clemencies than the previous three governors combined."
Mitt Romney on Monday, December 17th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa. >>Details
Romney refused to pardon "a decorated soldier" returning from Iraq who had been charged with a crime involving a BB gun when he was 13.
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 in an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe. >>Details
"Murder went up" when Romney was governor. "Robbery went up. Violent crimes went up.”
Rudy Giuliani on Saturday, November 24th, 2007 in a newspaper interview. >>Details
"The truth of the matter is that during my administration, the FBI’s crime statistics show that violent crime was reduced in Massachusetts by 7 percent."
Mitt Romney on Sunday, November 25th, 2007 in an interview >>Details
"In the 1990s, the Biden Crime Bill added 100,000 cops to America's streets. As a result, murder and violent crime rates went down eight years in a row."
Joe Biden on Friday, November 2nd, 2007 in statement on Web site >>Details
"Here's a man who brags about how he made the city safe. It was the Biden crime bill that became the Clinton crime bill that allowed him to do that."
Joe Biden on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia >>Details
"Fifty-six percent decline in overall crime. A 73 percent decline in motor-vehicle theft. A 67 percent decline in robbery. A 66 percent decline in murder. This is way beyond what happened in the nation during this period of time.
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 in New York, N.Y. >>Details
"I brought down crime more than anyone in this country -- maybe in the history of this country -- while I was mayor of New York City." -
Rudy Giuliani on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in a debate in Orlando, Fla. >>Details
“The crime decline in the United States would be fairly small if it wasn’t for the crime decline in New York City.”
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 in New York. >>Details
"In 1972, we had a 179,000 human beings in jail in this country. Today, it's 2.3-million, and 70 percent of them are black, African-American."
Mike Gravel on Thursday, June 28th, 2007 in a debate at Howard University. >>Details
"... study after study has shown that the death penalty deters murders."
Fred Thompson on Monday, August 20th, 2007 in an ABC radio commentary. >>Details
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