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And they are .At least in part. Soft on crime liberals are also part of
the problem.
'Migrants flooding NYC’s justice system — making up ‘75% of arrests in Midtown’ — as ‘pathetic’ sanctuary city laws handcuff cops'
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And then of course these same soft on crime liberals are falsifying the statistics.
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In Battle Over D.C. Police, Federal Prosecutors Open Inquiry Into Crime
Data
The same U.S. attorney’s office that praised a drop in crime in the
capital in April has begun an investigation into the Police Department resisting President Trump’s takeover.
Listen to this article · 4:10 min Learn more
A view at night of officers patrolling the streets as police sirens go
off.
City officials have challenged the rationale of such an aggressive
assertion of power, noting that most major categories of crime have been falling since 2023.Credit...Eric Lee for The New York Times
Devlin Barrett
By Devlin Barrett
The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., is investigating whether
city police officials falsified crime data, according to two people
familiar with the matter — another salvo in the feud between federal and local authorities after the Trump administration seized control of law enforcement in the nation’s capital.
The investigation is likely to prompt new criticism that the
administration is using the levers of the criminal justice system to
pursue the president’s political opponents. In justifying his takeover
of the city’s police force, President Trump has claimed crime in
Washington is worse than the statistics show.
He revisited the claim on Monday when he disclosed in a social media
post that an investigation had been opened into the issue.
“D.C. gave Fake Crime numbers in order to create a false illusion of safety,” Mr. Trump wrote. “This is a very bad and dangerous thing to do, and they are under serious investigation for so doing!”
How tabulating crime data from the local police could amount to a
federal crime is not immediately clear, the two people said, though the
effort aims to determine if there were false statements or fraud
involved in producing the data.
Prosecutors working for the U.S. attorney, Jeanine Pirro, opened the investigation in recent days, said the people, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to discuss a continuing inquiry.
A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment. A
spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department did not immediately
respond to a request for comment.
In wresting control of the police force, Mr. Trump and his allies have challenged the accuracy of the District of Columbia’s crime statistics.
They have pointed to a police official in the city’s Third District who
was suspended this year in the middle of an internal inquiry into
whether he downplayed the seriousness of some crimes. The head of the
local police union has also claimed, amid a litany of complaints about
the department’s senior leadership, that crimes have been deliberately undercounted.
Mayor Muriel Bowser has said that the matter involved data anomalies in
one of the city’s seven districts. “We are completing that
investigation, and we don’t believe it implicates many cases,” she told NBC4 Washington in recent days.
Since last Monday, Mr. Trump has declared an emergency in Washington,
taken authority over the Police Department for 30 days and sent hundreds
of National Guard troops and additional federal agents onto the streets
to conduct patrols and stop cars, giving them a high-profile presence in
daily life.
City officials have challenged the rationale for such an aggressive
assertion of power, noting that most major categories of crime have been falling since 2023. Homicides, for instance, have dropped 11 percent so
far this year compared with the same period last year.
In April, the same U.S. attorney’s office that is investigating the
city’s crime data heralded its figures, praising a 25 percent drop in
violent crime in Washington in the first 100 days of Mr. Trump’s administration.
Last week, however, the president declared that crime in the capital was
out of control and that his Justice Department would take over law
enforcement work in the city.
The standoff between federal and local authorities deepened after the
city’s attorney general sued the administration on Friday over its
efforts to tighten its grip on law enforcement. A day earlier, the
Justice Department declared it would curb the police chief’s authority
and demanded that local officers aid in immigration enforcement.
federal judge may hold a hearing on the issue this week.
Federal prosecutors are not the only ones trying to find evidence of a
coverup on crime figures in Washington.
Last week, a group founded by the Trump adviser Stephen Miller, America
First Legal, said it was seeking police and city documents about
possible problems with crime data
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