Claim: "In the eight years that I was mayor,  nearly 50 percent drop in violent crime, gang crime — crime went down because we grew our police department, we focused on constitutional community policing, we did some of the most innovative prevention, intervention, job re-entry programs in the nation."
Fact-check: Villaraigosa claims LA's violent crime dropped nearly 50%
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Chris Nichols
Date published: 2017-10-18T00:00:00