We witnessed the Democrat freak-out when President Donald Trump announced he was federalizing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) after yet another heinous, violent incident—this time the early August savage beating of former DOGE staffer “Big Balls” Edward Coristine as he tried to fend off a carjacking attempt from a mob of teens.
The corrupt mainstream media and the crime-loving progressive Democrats immediately took to every microphone and camera they could find to express their outrage over Trump’s Big Boy move, claiming that crime was way down in the District. As Trump and others pointed out to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Co., if you believe that, try taking a walk around the capital at night and see if you come home in one piece.
Good luck with that.
Of course, as seems to be the case so often these days, the progressive wide-eyed narrative quickly fell apart. Even some journalists admitted they’d been mugged and were scared. Meanwhile, as RedState’s Bonchie reported, a D.C. police commander was recently suspended for falsifying data to improve the city's crime statistics. Oh.
But it gets worse.
On Thursday, the Washington Free Beacon reported that the District had just settled a lawsuit that described even more fibbing about crime stats:
The District of Columbia has quietly settled a lawsuit from a sergeant who accused Metropolitan Police Department leaders of misclassifying offenses to deflate the district's crime statistics, court records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. Police brass repeatedly told officers to downgrade theft cases, knife attacks, and violent assaults to lesser offenses, according to internal MPD emails, depositions, and phone call transcripts the Free Beacon reviewed.
Her accusations were serious—and yet very believable, considering what we know to be happening versus what they tell us is happening. If you live in a major American city, you know exactly what I’m talking about.
Former MPD sergeant Charlotte Djossou sued the department in 2020, alleging that police leadership punished her for speaking out against the scheme. Djossou, who joined the force after serving honorably in Iraq, accused MPD brass of attempting to "distort crime statistics" by "downgrading a number of felonies to misdemeanors, so that there will be 'fewer' felonies in the statistics." She also provided records showing that police leaders explicitly instructed their subordinates to underclassify certain instances of theft to keep them out of the crime stats the city reports to the public.
The bad news just keeps coming for the left. As our Sister Toldjah reported, despite their protestations, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the City Council have long been aware of the crisis.
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Statistics obviously can be an extremely useful tool in a variety of applications. However, when they’re manipulated and corrupted to convince you of a distorted reality that is at odds with what you’re witnessing on a daily basis, they become a pernicious tool used to warp the political debate. Donald Trump is well aware of this, and is taking crime seriously—something the Democrats have neglected to do for decades as we’ve watched our amazing cities decline into dystopian semblances of their former selves.
The people are catching on, and no amount of falsified data is going to change that reality.
The left’s soft-on-crime policies have wreaked havoc on America.
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