Claim: "The U.S. representatives that voted to keep militarizing the police received 73 percent more campaign money from the defense industry" than the representatives who voted to stop it.
Fact-check: Did lawmakers who voted to keep defense-surplus program for police get 73% more in defense cash?
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2015-04-30T00:00:00