After President Donald Trump announced a federal crackdown on lawlessness in Washington, D.C., mainstream media outlets and Democratic politicians claimed violent crime in the nation’s capital has “fallen sharply” and has reached a “30-year low.” Their claims, though, rest on questionable police data that local leaders are accused of falsifying to play down the city’s violent crime problem. The Metropolitan Police Department recently suspended a commander for allegedly manipulating that data, a fact the mainstream reports excluded.
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