DC agency confirms police rigged crime stats the Left pinned against Trump
The Left repeatedly used local police statistics to suggest President Donald Trump was overreacting to crime in Washington, D.C. — but a watchdog agency’s report casts further doubt on the data.
TL;DR
- A D.C. Inspector General report reveals systemic issues in the Metropolitan Police Department's (MPD) crime documentation, including supervisory influence on crime classifications.
- This report challenges data used by Democrats and liberal media to suggest President Trump exaggerated crime rates in Washington, D.C.
- The investigation found MPD crime reporting processes since 2015 were unclear, opaque, lacked oversight, and were controlled by individuals with agendas.
- U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and the D.C. Inspector General's office both found evidence of MPD manipulating statistics.
- The findings contradict claims made by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and some media outlets who cited MPD data to assert crime was decreasing.
- A previous House Oversight Democrat staff report had dismissed concerns about MPD data manipulation as a "far-fetched conspiracy theory."