The Washington DC police department’s credibility is in tatters following revelations that crime statistics were being manipulated to hide the city’s violent crime wave.
The regime media tried and failed to gaslight Americans on crime in the nation’s capital, and US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro wasn’t having it for a single second.
Speaking after President Donald Trump’s bold federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department, an unprecedented move to clean up the lawless swamp, a smug reporter suggested crime in DC was “down.”
Pirro unleashed.
“It’s NEVER ENOUGH. You tell these families that crime has dropped. You tell the mother of the intern who was shot going out for McDonald’s near the Washington Convention Center, ‘oh, crime is down.’
You tell the kid who was just beat to hell and back with a severe concussion and a broken nose, ‘crime is down.’
No, that falls on deaf ears. My ears are deaf to that and that’s why I fight the fight. Thank you.”
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Pirro’s comments come as the DC police department’s credibility is in tatters following revelations that crime statistics were being manipulated to hide the city’s violent crime wave.
Back in July, NBC Washington reported that DC Police Commander Michael Pulliam, then head of the 3rd District, was suspended and placed on paid administrative leave after accusations surfaced that he altered crime data to make it look like violent crime had plummeted.
Five law enforcement sources confirmed Pulliam was being investigated for “questionable changes” to crime data, changes the police union says were part of a deliberate effort to make the numbers look better for political optics.
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DC’s liberal residents slam Trump for ‘overstepping’ with takeover of their city… but admit crime is rampant as troops prepare to flood streets
Despite insisting that President Donald Trump ‘overstepped’ by taking over the local police on Monday, Washington, DC residents admitted that crime is a problem.
They just don’t think Trump’s takeover is the solution.
The president announced Monday that Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) will now be under the control of Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice (DOJ).
In addition, Trump deployed 800 National Guard troops to the district in order to ‘rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.’
The forces were expected to take over DC this week and work in shifts to defend the capital from violence around the clock.
In over half a dozen interviews with DC locals, most expressed skepticism over the White House‘s new initiative while simultaneously telling the Daily Mail that additional resources could help crack down on crime.
‘I think it might be an overreaction,’ Carson, a young man in his early twenties who just moved to DC, told the Daily Mail. ‘I don’t think you need like FBI agents to stop violent crime.’
‘Their presence is good if the DC police need assistance … but I don’t think they need to really take over,’ another resident said of the troop deployments. ‘I’ve been robbed and everything, but that doesn’t mean that we need the National Guard.’
While many criticized Trump’s move as an overreach, some grudgingly shared that there are challenges facing the city.
Jacqueline Turner, a great-grandmother, told the Daily Mail that young people are ‘getting kind of outrageous’ and sided with Trump on parents being held accountable for their naughty children’s bad behavior.
‘The young people figure they can do what they want and they’re not going to be punished. And that’s not right … Maybe their parents ought to be prosecuted, or … penalized if they can’t control their children and raise them decently,’ Turner told the Daily Mail.
Mobs of kids in their teens have frequently shown up in popular shopping and dining areas around DC, including the neighborhoods around Navy Yard, the Wharf and downtown, according to local reports.
Still, Jacqueline called Trump’s move to bring in the National Guard ‘ridiculous.’
‘He wants to take control of DC,’ John, another resident, said. ‘Crime has been down as far as I know.’
MPD statistics do show that violent crime is down year over year, but many locals still fret over high-profile incidents, like the recent fatal shooting of a congressional intern, a tragedy the president has spoken about.
‘Of course, you’re going to take precautionary measures,’ John added. ‘You’re going to make sure that you’re vigilant about where you’re walking.’
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ABC News anchor reveals she was ‘jumped’ by a ‘half-dressed’ vagrant in DC: ‘We’re all experiencing it firsthand’
ABC News anchor Kyra Phillips on Monday recounted a harrowing encounter she had with a “half-dressed” homeless man who mugged her in downtown Washington, DC, as she noted that many in the nation’s capital are experiencing crime “firsthand” despite what official statistics show.
“I can tell you firsthand here in downtown DC where we work, right here around our bureau, just in the past six months, you know, there were two people shot, one person died, literally two blocks down here from the bureau,” Phillips explained.
“It was within the last two years that I actually was jumped walking just two blocks down from here,” she revealed.
“And then, just this morning, one of my co-workers said her car was stolen, a block away from the bureau,” Phillips added.
“We can talk about the numbers going down, but crime is happening every single day because we’re all experiencing it firsthand, working and living down here,” the “ABC News Live” host continued, as she reported on President Trump’s decision to place the city’s police department under federal control and deploy National Guard troops in the streets.
Phillips later described her encounter with the mugger as “scary as hell,” as she interviewed DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro.
“So, I was jumped just two blocks here from the ABC bureau. It was not a minor, though,” she told Pirro, noting that “it’s happened to a lot of people in our building, sadly.”
“He was homeless and half-dressed — clearly wasn’t in his clear mind,” Phillips said of her attacker.
The former CNN journalist said she felt her best option was to fight back.
“It was scary as hell, I’m not going to lie, but I fought back. I didn’t see any weapons in his hands. I felt like it was my only choice,” Phillips recalled.
Trump fumed Monday that DC has been “overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people.”
The president vowed that his administration is “not going to let it happen anymore,” and will remove homeless encampments from all public places, including parks and underpasses.
The latest data from DC’s Metropolitan Police Department show violent crime has dropped 26% in the district so far this year, compared to 2024.
Overall crime is down 7% so far, according to MPD.
Trump claimed Monday that the numbers were “phony” and promised that Attorney General Pam Bondi will be “looking into that.”
The president noted that a DC police commander was suspended last month for allegedly falsifying crime data to make trends appear more positive.
Pirro, in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, described DC as an “incredibly violent area” with a crime problem that is so “horrific” that residents have stopped reporting some of it altogether.
“What we’ve got here are people that are not even making complaints about the quality-of-life crimes, whether it’s shoplifting or damaging property or an attempted carjacking,” the DC US attorney said.
“They don’t even call the police,” Pirro continued, arguing that “we’re not even seeing most of the crime that’s occurring.”
The former New York district attorney and Fox News host also argued that the reason Trump’s press conference announcing the DC crime crackdown was “so packed” is because many journalists, like Phillips, have been the victims of crime in the nation’s capital.
“Those reporters in that room — and it was packed to the gills — experience crime themselves,” Pirro said.
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