The Doj investigation into DC police for having allegedly manipulated crime statistics
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The Ministry of Justice is investigating the statements that the Washington Police Service DC manipulated crime data to publish more favorable statistics, sources told Fox News.
Two informed sources on the issue have confirmed to Fox News that the DOJ examines whether the data on the crime of the national capital had been manipulated. The reported survey follows President Donald Trump against allegations that such data on crime have been manipulated to show that violence is down in the city.
“DC gave false crime numbers to create a false illusion of security,” Trump on Trum social on Monday morning posted. “This is a very bad and dangerous thing to do, and they are in a serious investigation to do it! Until 4 days ago, Washington, DC, was the most dangerous” city “in the United States, and perhaps the world. Now, in a short period of time, it may be the embellishment, and will improve every hour! People are again in DC, and soon, the embellishment will start!”
Trump federally federally the Metropolitan Police Department on August 11 in response to a series of murders and high -level attacks, and a wave of crime in the district that has persisted since 2020. Trump has federalized the local police service under article 740 of the law on the domination of the Columbia district, which allows the president to assume emergency control of the police forces for 30 days.
DC police accused of changing crime statistics a few weeks before Trump Federalized City
The members of the Drug Enforcement Administration and Police Patrol near Navy Yard in Washington, on August 14, 2025, following President Donald Trump federating the police. (Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters)
Only a few weeks before Trump Federalized The Force – which includes hundreds of members of the National Guard and various federal law enforcement agents converging in the city – the DC police service was accused of having modified the number of crimes to publish more favorable data.
“When our members respond to the scene of a criminal offense where there is a victim reporting that a crime has occurred, there will inevitably be a lieutenant or a captain who will present himself on this scene and order these members to take a report for a lesser offense,” said DC police president Gregy Pemberton, to NBC Washington in July of a preliminary tendency to manipulate the statistics. criminal.
“Thus, instead of making a report for a shooting or a stab or a hijacking, he will order this officer to take a report for a flight or a person injured in the hospital or a criminal assault, which is not the same type of classification,” he said.
The accusations of the chief of the Union followed the police service by suspending Washington, DC, the police commander Michael Pulliam in mid-May for changing statistics on crime in his district, local media reported in July.
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The police commander was accused of falsifying crime data to make crime trends more favorable to the city, but denied these allegations. A week before its suspension, Pouliam filed an equal employment complaint against a higher local point of sale NBC Washington reported.
Washington Metropolitan Police Department, DC, was accused of changing crime statistics before the launch of an investigation. (Getty Images)
Fox News Digital contacted the mayor’s office of DC Muriel Bowser and the Metropolitan Police Department to comment on the DOJ investigation into data handling allegations but did not immediately receive answers on Tuesday afternoon.
Democratic legislators and leaders, and some local residents criticized Trump to unite the city, saying that recent violent crimes tend to descend and that it was not necessary to send the National Guard.
Transit police members are patrolling U Street on August 16, 2025, in Washington, DC after President Trump federating the police. (Mehmet Eser / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
“Violent crimes in Washington, DC are a 30 -year -old hollow,” said August 11. “”Donald Trump has no basis for resuming the local police service. And zero credibility on the question of law and order. Get lost.”
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“While you listen to an unleashed Trump, try to justify the deployment of the National Guard to DC, here is reality: Violent crime at DC is a 30 -year -old hollow, “the former secretary of state Hillary Clinton posted on x.
Washington, DC, was one of the cities taken in a national trend of doping crime in 2020 – when the Cavid -19 pandemic was raging and manifest and riots exceeded the cities of the country – recording 198 Homicides that yearwho marked a 16 -year -old summit for the city. The homicides increased to 226 in 2021, dropped to 203 in 2022 and climbed in 2023 to 274 – a 20 -year summit.
DC saw homicides drop by around 31% from 2023 to 2024, according to data from the Department of Metropolitan Police at the end of the year, data from 187 in 2024.
The former Capitol police chief said that the crime of “youth gangs” has increased, has escaped “certain districts”
While current crime data published by the police service show that violent crimes are decreasing, a study published in July by the Criminal Justice Council revealed that the chances of a person who died during such a crime have skyrocketed.
President Donald Trump announced that he federalized the Washington police service DC at a press conference on August 11, 2025. (Alex Brandon / The Associated Press)
The study examined data on violent crimes of 17 major American cities between 2018 and 2024, specifically investigating the lethality of violent crimes in these cities. He found that Washington, DC, had the highest level of lethality in the group, which included Baltimore and Chicago, with a 38% increase in lethality in 2024 compared to 2018.
Letter in DC jumped 341% compared to the 2012 data, revealed that the study said that there were 13 homicides for 1,000 violent crimes in 2012 at 57 homicides for 1,000 severe violent crimes in 2024.
Trump obtained a round of complaints, especially on August 14, when he said that an investigation had been launched in the issue.
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“They are investigating at the moment,” said Trump on August 14 at an Oval Office press conference. “They give this bogus crime statistics just as they have given other statistics in the financial world. But they are bogus crime statistics. And Washington, DC, is at its worst point, and it will soon be at its best time. You will have a very sure, you are going to have a city without crime.”
