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PartialCrime & policing

Re-fund and respect the police and increase penalties for theft and violent crime.

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PartialFact-checker reviewConfidence: 70%

All four cited sources are reachable and support the rating. (1) Senate Roll Call 119-1-7 is the vote on S.5, the Laken Riley Act — "A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft" — which Scott voted Yea on; it passed 64-35 and is now Public Law 119-1. This is a real but narrow enacted theft-consequence increase he VOTED for rather than led. (2) Scott is the lead sponsor of the Preserving Safe Communities by Ending Swatting Act (penalties up to 20 years); "proud to lead this important bill in the Senate again and look forward to its passage" is verified — genuine leadership on a penalty bill, but not enacted. (3) The 2020 op-ed confirms his pro-police-funding posture; the on-page wording is "Don't defund the police. Fund the police." (rating cited "Do not defund" — a contraction expansion, not a fabrication, meaning intact). (4) WTXL confirms Scott reintroduced the Protect and Serve Act increasing penalties for targeting law enforcement (joined colleagues; Tillis original introducer) — reintroduced, not enacted. Net: sustained advocacy plus one enacted narrow theft measure he voted for, plus self-led/co-sponsored penalty bills that stalled, and no enacted federal police-funding win. That is genuine partial delivery — short of FULL (most stalled, no funding win) and CHAMPIONED (the enacted item was a floor vote, not his leadership; his led bill did not pass), but above a failed attempt. PARTIAL is correctly calibrated.

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