Claim: Two years ago motorists in Ferguson, a city of 20,000 people, "received 31,000 citations. That's at least one citation per person plus 10,000 for visitors. The city is still surviving only on traffic tickets; there's virtually no industry there."
Fact-check: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver uses wrong figure in statement about Ferguson
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Sean Nelson
Date published: 2015-10-22T00:00:00