NEWS ALERT: DC Police Leaders Stand Accused of Manipulating Data To Make Violent Crime Appear Lower. Here’s How…

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From the Washington Free Beacon: Mainstream media outlets have used the city’s stats to report that crime is down without noting that a DC commander is on leave for manipulating them.

In Washington, D.C., simple assault, a misdemeanor offense, is defined as “any attempt or effort, with force or violence, to do injury to the person of another.” But the city’s police department does not count it as a “violent crime.” That designation is reserved for “assault with a dangerous weapon,” a felony offense.

The district recorded 1,026 incidents of assault with a dangerous weapon in 2024, down 27 percent from the year prior. In 2025, it has thus far recorded 534 such assaults, a 20 percent drop from the 668 the district recorded over the same time period in 2024. There’s just one problem: The real numbers are likely higher.

In July, just weeks before President Donald Trump announced his crackdown on crime in D.C., the city’s police union head, Gregg Pemberton, accused police lieutenants and captains of ordering lower-level members to “take a report for a lesser offense” in an attempt to make violent crime stats fall. One D.C. police commander, Michael Pulliam, is under investigation for manipulating those stats, NBC’s D.C. affiliate reported.

The report explains that this certainly isn’t the first time DC Police officials have been accused of fudging the numbers on crime statistics.

Two D.C. police officers spoke up during a 2020 city council meeting and accused their superiors of mislabeling violent crimes as misdemeanors to make it appear that crime wasn’t so bad in the city.

The officers told about multiple incidents in 2019 involving assault with a dangerous weapon which ended up being classified as a “simple assault” and therefore, was not charged.

Democrats have raged against President Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard to help address crime in D.C., as they continue to insist that “crime is down” in the nation’s capital.

Jeanine Pirro, U.S. District Attorney for D.C., posted photos of victims and wrote, “Look at these 45 victims, all 19 and under, all killed by gunfire in the last 18 months in DC and tell me that crime is down and we don’t need an emergency focus on crimes of violence.”

“Anyone who wants to tell me that ‘crime is down’ and that we don’t need an emergency focus on crimes of violence, all they need to do is take a look at this and talk to the loved ones… of these individuals — all shot and killed long before their time,” Pirro declared during a press conference on Tuesday.

Fox News co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy shared a photo of a porch thief and wrote, “Caught a porch thief on our security camera yesterday at my hubby’s Washington DC residence. They do it because they can. Finally! Someone’s willing to crack down on crime in our nation’s Capitol. Thank you President Trump, ⁦@AGPamBondi
⁩& Queen Jeanine!”

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