Claim: "If you look at what we've done over the last several years, the crime rate has actually gone down in  and . . . the number of shootings has been going down."
Fact-check: Mayor Angel Taveras says crime rate, shootings have decreased in Providence
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: C. Eugene Emery Jr.
Date published: 2014-07-24T00:00:00