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DC Police Officials Disciplined Over Allegations Of Manipulating Crime Data<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Multiple high-ranking officials in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) are facing termination in connection with allegations about how they handled and possibly manipulated crime statistics in the district.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Breitbart reports<\/a>\u00a0that three MPD officials told\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0that \u201cmultiple high-ranking\u201d officials\u2014all captains or above, all in leadership\u2014were given \u201cpapers saying the department intends to fire them.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a DC Police Union press release, the anticipated terminations are directly related to an investigation into allegations that the officials engaged in direct manipulation of crime data to minimize the level of crime in DC.<\/p>\n

The union, which represents 3,000 MPD officers, welcomed the decision to terminate the officials, saying, \u201cThese actions, tied directly to the department\u2019s completed Internal Affairs investigation into the deliberate manipulation of crime data, mark a long-overdue step toward justice and the restoration of integrity with MPD.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0<\/em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>, \u201cThe District has reported a decline in overall crime in recent years after a historic spike in 2023. But some in D.C. police circles have long complained that certain managers routinely reduced the severity of crime classifications to make their police districts appear safer or avoid criticism from top department brass.\u201d<\/p>\n

In some districts, armed home invasions were written down as \u201ctrespassing\u201d instead, dropping a vioIent felony to a low-level misdemeanor, in order to manipulate the crime stats.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 13 individuals who were served termination papers have not been fired yet as they are entitled to due process under the department\u2019s general orders.<\/p>\n

Interim MPD Chief Jeffrey Carroll said, \u201cThe administrative process must be allowed to take its course, and that process is outlined in our MPD general orders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carroll added, \u201cLet me be clear, we have made meaningful progress over the last three years in reducing crime. Homicides, shootings and carjackings have fallen steadily since 2023.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

NBC 4 reports<\/a>\u00a0that three of the high-level officials worked very closely with former Chief Pamela Smith, including her second-in-command and at least one assistant chief who oversaw patrol in half of DC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 05\/06\/2026 – 16:20<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DC Police Officials Disciplined Over Allegations Of Manipulating Crime Data Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, Multiple high-ranking officials in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) are facing termination in connection with allegations about how they handled and possibly manipulated crime statistics in the district. Breitbart reports\u00a0that three MPD officials told\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0that… Continue reading DC Police Officials Disciplined Over Allegations Of Manipulating Crime Data<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":597343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/597343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}