The Doj investigation into DC police for having allegedly manipulated crime statistics

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. “It is a very bad and dangerous thing to do, and they are under 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 surest, and will improve at 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 federalized the local police service under article 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which allows the president to assume the emergency control of the police forces for 30 days.

DC police accused of changing crime statistics a few weeks before Trump Federalized City

Members of the Drug Enforcement Administration and Police Patrol near the Navy Yard in Washington on August 14, 2025, after President Donald Trump federally 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 were stretching on August 16, 2025 in Washington after President Donald Trump federalized police forces. (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 in doping crime in 2020, recording 198 Homicides that yearwho marked a 16 -year -old summit for the city. The year 2020 has marked a bloody year for the United States at all levels, the FBI recording a jump of almost 30% of homicides compared to 2019.

The district homicides jumped at 226 in 2021, dropped to 203 in 2022 and climbed in 2023 to 274, a 20 -year summit.

DC saw homicides drop by approximately 31% from 2023 to 2024, according to data from the Department of Metropolitan Police at the end of the year, which brought in 187 homicides in 2024. The data show that violent crimes collectively dropped by around 35% in 2024 compared to 2023.

The former Capitol police chief said that the crime of “youth gangs” has increased, has escaped “certain districts”

President Donald Trump announced that he would federalize the Washington police service DC at a press conference on August 11, 2025. (Alex Brandon / The Associated Press)

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.

Of the 17 cities that the study examined from 2018 to 2024, he revealed that Washington, DC, had the highest level of lethality in the group with an increase of 38% in 2024 compared to 2018. DC lethality jumped 341% compared to 2012 data, also revealed the study. Lettality has been defined in the study as “the number of homicides by aggressions and aggravated flights”.

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.”