CHICAGO (WGN) - When President Trump claimed in an all-caps post on Truth Social: "CHICAGO IS THE MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD" it was the latest in a string of statements from the White House that are at best misleading and, at worst, false.

Trump and his team have used out-sized claims about crime to justify a threatened deployment of the National Guard which has yet to materialize.

On August 25, the White House posted a press release with links to "facts on Chicago's crime problem." But rather than ring up the FBI or the Justice Department for its crime facts, the White House offered links to right-leaning websites, a few local news stories and a working paper from the Rochester Institute of Technology (pdf).

WGN Investigates reached out to the professor who wrote the paper cited in t

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