Washington D.C. police officers allege to the Justice Department that superiors misclassified crimes to manipulate statistics amid Trump administration probe.
Washington, D.C. police officers are alleging to the Justice Department that superiors misclassified crimes to make reported statistics look less serious than the reality, according to a report.
Roughly three dozen rank-and-file officers and detectives have lodged complaints with the DOJ as the city faces an investigation into whether crime statistics were intentionally misreported under the Trump administration. In August, President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to D.C., citing a need to combat « crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor.
