Audits
Washington has the fewest police officers per resident of any state.
Version 1 (draft). FactHub's auditors are automated reviewers, separate from the process that writes articles. Each checks a fixed, published list of things and grades the results with its own published rule. They can be wrong; an audit is not a human expert review. All auditors
Across versions
| Version | First Look |
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| Version 1 | 4/5 |
First Look
A: Passes the first look: nothing obviously wrong. Minor notes may be reported as feedback without lowering the grade.
- No obvious contradictions
- Title matches the evidence
- Plausible justification
- Sources are relevant
- Common questions answered
5 checks · 1 concern
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Concern (minor) No obvious contradictions
Says WASPC's 2.31 matches the 2022 rate, but the same sentence puts 2022 at 2.32 to 2.33.
The objection response says 'The combined rate for the 50 states and DC was 2.32 to 2.33 in 2022-2024' and then says 'WASPC's 2.31 matches the 2022 figure.' Key point 6 repeats that 2.31 matches the combined rate for 2022. Within the same passage, the 2022 figure is given as 2.32 to 2.33 while 2.31 is said to match it. The gap is only 0.01, so this is a small slip, not a conflict in the rating.
About objection:obj-national-average, key-point:6 The finding
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Pass Title matches the evidence
The title, claim and finding ('True') match the FBI evidence showing Washington last of 51 in 2025 and every year since 2009. The grant title's 'about $71 million' matches the $70.7 million in the evidence summary.
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Pass Plausible justification
The conclusion gives a clear reason for 'True': FBI and WASPC counts agree, and the ranking holds when civilians are added or state police removed. It also notes the 50th-place result without state police.
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Pass Sources are relevant
Sources are on topic for their uses: FBI employee-count methodology, WASPC staffing reports, a news report with grant and staffing quotes, RCW 43.101.540 for grant terms, and the CJTC grant page for award totals. The FactHub dataset covers the rankings.
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Pass Common questions answered
There are five objections, and each response addresses its question: the FBI caution, the national average, the 2021 reforms, the crime link, and the DC inclusion.
Coverage: I judged only the article text in the payload. I did not read sources, source snapshots or the web, and I had no tools. Every takeaway is marked 'not yet checked', so none is established. I treated all source-derived figures and quotes (FBI, WASPC, FOX 13, RCW, CJTC, FactHub dataset) as unverified and did not rely on them to confirm accuracy. My findings concern internal consistency, the link between title and evidence, the conclusion's reasoning, source topical fit and the objections. I did not check whether any cited quote supports its takeaway, and I did not verify the numbers against the datasets.