THE FEDERAL investigation reportedly started after Cmdr Michael
Pulliam was suspended in May by the Metropolitan police department for
allegedly altering crime data. Pulliam denies the charges.
But federal prosecutors are now examining potential wrongdoing by
multiple police and city officials, according to law enforcement sources.
DC’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, has repeatedly cited police data
showing violent crime down by 27% over the last year to argue against Trump’s
federal takeover of local police. The department has separately reported that
violent crime fell by 35% in 2024.
The chief of DC’s police union, Gregg Pemberton who supports
federal control calls both
sets of statistics “preposterous”, and said officers know the reality on the
streets.
“We go call to call to call – robbery to carjacking to stabbing to
shooting,” Pemberton told NBC News Washington last week. “Crime is ubiquitous
in every quadrant of the city.”
Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into
allegations that Washington DC police systematically manipulated crime
statistics to make the city appear safer than it actually is.
The probe, anonymous sources tell the Washington Post, NBC News
and Fox News, being conducted by the US attorney’s office for the District of
Columbia under Jeanine Pirro, is the latest escalation between the Trump administration
and DC officials over federal control of local policing.
Trump somewhat confirmed the investigation on Monday, writing on social
media that DC provided “fake crime numbers” to create a “false illusion of
safety” and officials were “under serious investigation”.
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