DOJ Investigates DC Police For “Faking” Crime Statistics

The Washington Post reports:

The Justice Department is investigating whether Washington, D.C., police manipulated data to make crime rates appear lower, according to three people familiar with the probe.

The launch of the criminal investigation — run out of the federal prosecutor’s office in D.C. — escalates the tense relationship between the Trump administration and local D.C. officials, who have repeatedly cited steep drops in violent crime to question the federal takeover of law enforcement in the nation’s capital.

“D.C. gave Fake Crime numbers in order to create a false illusion of safety,” President Donald Trump wrote in confirming the existence of the probe on social media Monday night.

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