It’s an ad airing frequently on Houston airwaves this election season, targeting Harris County’s Democratic judges and one that caught Houston mayor Sylvester Turner’s attention, as well.
Last Wednesday, the mayor tweeted: “This political ad running against Democratic judges stating Houston has more murders than Chicago is a LIE. As of last week, Chicago had 180 more murders than Houston. The ad should be pulled and the stations should NOT run it.”
The ad cites a news report from January by another Houston television station that said, at the time, Chicago had 36 homicides compared to Houston’s 38. The ad attributes this claim to statistics from the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, the county’s medical examiner’s office. But numbers provided to us by that same agency show from 2017 to 2021, homicides in Harris County went from 455 to 720, an increase of 38%, but not nearly doubled as the ad states.
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