Joe Biden's claims about defunding the police Fact Check.

Another binary fact check.

If someone is going to call someone a liar, they should have their facts straight. Today we are dealing with the fact that Joe Biden did in fact state he wanted to redirect funds from police. This literally means defining according to the Cambridge Dictionary.

Joe Biden did say he wanted to defund the police.

Binary fact checking is simple. Where other fact checks look into several different aspects of a situation, incident, speech, event, or so on, we take things item by item to see where the facts are. Taking a grand sweeping overview and forming an opinion is not checking the facts. Originally fact checkers were involved in journalism to do just this. They checked the facts before publishing because there were consequences for printing false stories. The safeguards were removed several years ago leading to spin replacing facts. Our intention is to return to actual fact checking. We check the facts so the viewer, or reader, can make form an opinion based upon the facts.