<![CDATA[Bloomberg's Safest Big City Claim]]>

1.0 link 225964 <![CDATA[Bloomberg's Safest Big City Claim]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/len-levitt/nyc-ranked-on-of-the_b_225964.html Mayor Michael Bloomberg's re-election campaign claims the FBI ranks New York as the safest large city in America.

That claim is false and Bloomberg knows it.

The FBI doesn't rank cities and specifically states that it's misleading to use its statistics that way.

When Bloomberg made the same claim during his mayoral run in 2005, a complaint from the FBI led his campaign to yank the FBI reference from its political ads, according to an FBI official.

"They modified their...

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