Trump Says ‘Phony’ DC Crime Statistics Are Being Investigated

Trump says ‘phony’ DC crime statistics are being investigated

President Donald Trump pledged Thursday that “phony” Washington crime data would be investigated amid his federal takeover of the local police. “They are under investigation right now,” Trump said from the Oval Office. “They are giving us phony crime stats, just like they gave other stats in the financial world. But they’re phony crime stats, and Washington, D.C., is at its worst point, and it will soon be at its best point.” The president annou…

EXCLUSIVE: Trump-aligned legal group files FOIA request for DC crime data, citing alleged manipulation

America First Legal Foundation files FOIA request seeking D.C. Metropolitan Police crime records amid allegations that statistics have been manipulated.

D.C. Police HQ Was Helping 'Correct' the #Mathz on Those New, Improved Crime Stats

D.C. Police HQ faces scrutiny over manipulated crime stats amid Trump's claims. Explore the truth behind the numbers.

D.C.'s 'Crime Drop' Sham Revealed: Cooking the Books and Canning the Whistleblower to Spite Trump

DC's crime statistics manipulated by police to mislead public perception and deflect accountability.

DC police union says crime stats are manipulated by department heads to downplay violence

“There's absolutely no way crime could be down 28%. Last year they suggested that it went down 34%.”

A DC Police Sergeant Exposed Her Superiors for Misclassifying Crimes To Make Stats Look Low. The City Just Quietly Settled Her Lawsuit.

The District of Columbia has quietly settled a lawsuit from a sergeant who accused Metropolitan Police Department leaders of misclassifying offenses to deflate the district's crime statistics, court records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. Police brass repeatedly told officers to downgrade theft cases, knife attacks, and violent assaults to lesser offenses, according to internal MPD emails, depositions, and phone call transcripts the…