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Crime Data Scandal in DC Vindicates Trump’s National Guard Intervention

President Donald Trump took decisive action last year to halt crime in Washington, and the results have been spectacular.

President Trump's tough on crime policies have led to a DRASTIC decrease in crime in our nation's capital. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/yyE44aD4OQ— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 20, 2026

President Trump's tough on crime policies have led to a DRASTIC decrease in crime in our nation's capital. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/yyE44aD4OQ

But that success now looks even more impressive considering recent reports that high-ranking members of the Metropolitan Police Department had been previously cooking the books to create the mirage that crime was lower than it was.

The House Oversight Committee released a report in December uncovering that during its investigation of crime in the capital, it heard “testimonies from commanders that there are clear pressures placed on MPD personnel to lower the classifications of crime to present to the public the perception of low crime in the District.”

The police commanders said, according to the committee, that “on numerous occasions, they were not only pressured, but also instructed, to lower crime classifications to lesser intermediate offenses in such a way that those offenses would not be included in the DCR reported to the public.”

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said Friday in an interview with Fox News that her office conducted a review as well and found that 50 witnesses and more than 6,000 police reports backed up the claim that there was tampering with the crime stats.

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