Claim: "Violent crime is up since the last year of Sharpe James' administration. This year it's higher. … The unemployment rate is almost 15 percent. The high school dropout rate is over 50 percent."
Fact-check: Steve Lonegan claims violent crime is up in Newark; also pans city's unemployment, high school dropout rates
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Caryn Shinske
Date published: 2013-10-10T00:00:00