Scott Alexander relays that someone with experience in the field told him there are some problems with hiring police, such as requiring everyone who works in law enforcement to start as a beat cop.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
What would count as true or false
This claim is about what Scott Alexander wrote. True: his 2024-12-10 post (or the comment it quotes) relays that someone with experience in the field told him about problems with hiring police, and gives the requirement that everyone in law enforcement start as a beat cop as an example. Mostly true: he relays such a statement about hiring problems from an experienced person, but the example differs slightly in wording or detail. Mostly false: he discusses problems with hiring police but does not attribute them to someone with field experience, or the beat-cop example is not part of what is relayed. False: the post contains no such relayed statement.
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Reasoning
No evidence with a verified quote was found apart from the claim's own source, so the claim was not judged.
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Scott Alexander, “Scott Alexander relays that someone with experience in the field told him there are some problems with hiring police, such as requiring everyone who works in law enforcement to start as a beat cop.” (said 10 December 2024). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_9d55f0a86271, method 0.1.0+8bea457b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_9d55f0a86271
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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